National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art

National Gallery of Modern Art tickets: €17 and a three-hour window

The National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (GNAM) sells its own tickets, at the ticket office on Viale delle Belle Arti and online through Ticketone, the ticket site the gallery links to. We don’t sell a ticket for it, so the prices on this page are the gallery’s. A full ticket costs €17, and EU citizens aged 18 to 25 pay €2.

Every ticket comes with a three-hour window that you choose when you buy, and that’s your visit. You go in once, though you can step out to the Caffè delle Arti and back while your window lasts, so keep the ticket on you until the end. On ordinary days nothing has to be booked ahead: you can buy online or just turn up at the ticket office.

The Borghese fare is the one to know if you’re seeing both in a day. Show your Galleria Borghese ticket and the GNAM costs €10 that same day, a fare the gallery calls “da Canova a Canova”, from Canova to Canova. The walk between the two takes 10 to 15 minutes, through the park.

Entry is also free on any day for visitors with a disability and one companion, and for a few professions, tour guides and journalists among them.

Free first Sundays and €10 Thursday evenings at the GNAM

On the first Sunday of every month, and on the national free days, everyone goes in free. You still book a time online, though, and you have to keep to it. On those days the gallery keeps its usual 9:00 to 19:00, with last entry at 18:15.

Until 17 December 2026 the gallery also opens on Thursday evenings, from 19:00 to 23:00, for €10. The gallery gives two last-entry times for these evenings, 22:00 and 22:15, so go in by 22:00 to be safe.

Using a Roma Pass entry at the National Gallery of Modern Art

The Roma Pass gets you in one of two ways. The GNAM can be one of the card’s included entries, one on the 48-hour card and two on the 72-hour card, or once those are used you pay the reduced price of €7.50. You choose which at the gallery, and with the full ticket at €17, an included entry is worth the whole price here.

Keep the included entry for someone who would pay. An under-18 goes in free anyway, and so does everyone on a first Sunday or a free day. The gallery’s visitor information doesn’t mention the card at all, so there’s no separate cardholders’ line or booking rule we can point you to.

The Rome Tourist Card and the Vatican City Pass don’t include the GNAM. The Omnia Card page explains how its Roma Pass part works, and Roma Pass and Rome’s other city passes lines the gallery up against the rest of your list.

Klimt, Van Gogh and Canova: what you see at the GNAM

The painting to look for first is Gustav Klimt’s The Three Ages of Woman, from 1905, with its gold-patterned background. The gallery bought it at the International Exhibition of 1911, the world’s fair this building was put up for, so it has hung here almost since the palace opened.

From there the collection, the largest in Italy for art from the 19th century to the present, is full of painters you’ll know. Van Gogh is here with The Gardener and L’Arlésienne, and so are Monet, Cézanne and Degas, with sculpture by Rodin.

The oldest star is a marble one. Antonio Canova’s Hercules and Lichas shows the hero about to hurl the young Lichas away, and it’s the Canova that gives the Borghese fare its name.

The Italian names carry on with Modigliani, Balla, Boccioni, de Chirico, Morandi, Burri and Fontana. From abroad there’s Duchamp, Calder and Jackson Pollock, whose Undulating Paths dates from 1947. The first room of the route belongs to the gallery’s artist of the year, Marinella Senatore until 31 December 2026, and temporary exhibitions run alongside the collection.

GNAM opening hours and what you can take into the rooms

The gallery opens Tuesday to Sunday from 9:00 to 19:00, and the last entry is 45 minutes before closing, at 18:15. It’s closed on Mondays and on 25 December, and the Caffè delle Arti keeps longer hours, from 8:00 to 20:00, Tuesday to Sunday.

Why the GNAM sits in a palace built for the 1911 world’s fair

The gallery is older than its building. It was founded in 1883, on the initiative of the minister Guido Baccelli, and in 1915 it moved into the palace the architect Cesare Bazzani had designed for the International Exhibition of 1911.

The palace was enlarged in 1934, and its front carries friezes by Luppi, Laurenti and other sculptors. The name has grown too: officially it’s now the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, so you’ll see it written as GNAM or GNAMC, and older guides still call it the National Gallery of Modern Art.

Walking to the GNAM through Villa Borghese, or the metro to Flaminio

The nicest way in is on foot through the park, on the path from the Borghese Gallery. You can also come up the hill from the Museo di Villa Giulia, the museum next door, or down the hill from the zoo. By public transport, metro line A and the Roma-Viterbo train both stop at Flaminio, about 600 m away, and buses 61, 89, 160, 490 and 495 stop at Piazzale del Fiocco.

Trams 3 and 19 stop right on Viale delle Belle Arti, though the tram network has changes this autumn, so check they’re running. And don’t let the stop throw you: it’s called Galleria d’Arte Moderna, which is also the name of the GAM, a different museum run by the city of Rome on Via Francesco Crispi, with its own ticket. The GNAM is the one by the stop, at Viale delle Belle Arti 131.