Museum of Rome at Palazzo Braschi

Museum of Rome tickets at Palazzo Braschi: the collection and the Keith Haring show

We don’t sell a ticket for the Museum of Rome, so you buy it from the museum, and there’s no need to buy ahead. At the ticket desk on the day it costs €13, or €7.50 reduced, paid by cash or card with no fee. If you’d rather have it on your phone, the museum sells the same ticket online and by phone on 060608 for €1 more, and those pre-sold tickets can’t be refunded or moved.

That ticket covers the permanent collection, which is on the second and third floors. The ground floor is for temporary exhibitions, and from 6 October 2026 to 11 April 2027 it has Keith Haring, more than 140 works from the Nakamura Keith Haring Collection, with prices of its own.

The reduced price is for EU citizens aged 6 to 25 or over 65, teachers, journalists and Roma Pass holders, and children under 6 go in free. Since February 2026, residents of Rome and its metropolitan area go in free too, but visitors from elsewhere pay. Bring proof of whatever gets you the lower price, because at the entrance you’ll be asked for it, and without it you pay the difference.

Some resellers offer a “reserved entry” ticket that you collect at an office on Piazza Navona before going in. The museum itself only mentions skipping the ticket desk queue for groups who book, so a ticket like that doesn’t get you through a separate line.

Palazzo Braschi on the Roma Pass, and what it leaves out

The Museum of Rome is on the Roma Pass, and it works both ways: as one of the card’s included entries, or at the reduced €7.50 once you’ve used them or want to save them. You decide at the museum by showing the QR code in the Roma Pass app. There’s no time to book and no separate line for cardholders, so you queue at the desk with everyone else.

The one thing the included entry leaves out is the ground-floor exhibition space, which has a ticket desk of its own. The Roma Pass is on the museum’s list of reduced prices, so for Keith Haring expect to pay €15, or €19 with the museum, and ask at the desk when you buy.

The 24-hour Omnia Card doesn’t cover the museum, and neither do the Rome Tourist Card, Go City or the Turbopass. The 72-hour Omnia Card has its own page, and Roma Pass and Rome’s other city passes sets all of them side by side.

If you pay the reduced €7.50 here instead of spending an included entry, you save €5.50 on the €13 ticket and keep the entry for somewhere dearer, like Castel Sant’Angelo at €18.

Museum of Rome opening hours and how long the visit takes

The museum opens six days a week and closes on Mondays, with the same hours all year apart from short days on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. The collection takes an hour or two, and the Keith Haring exhibition adds roughly another hour.

Inside Palazzo Braschi: the staircase, the city rooms and the view of Piazza Navona

Before any of the collection, the palace shows off its staircase. It climbs in two flights from an oval vestibule, past polished stone columns and stucco, up to a coffered dome with an opening at the top, and it’s the way up to the museum floors.

Upstairs, the permanent collection fills 15 themed rooms on the second and third floors, and its subject is the city itself, from the Renaissance to the 20th century. There are paintings, drawings, prints and photographs of Rome, sculpture and furniture, and carriages, which are worth looking for.

On the third floor, the windows give you Piazza Navona from above, with the obelisk of the Fountain of the Four Rivers and the church of Sant’Agnese in Agone. It’s the same square you walked across to get here, seen from the house of the family who once looked down on it.

Palazzo Braschi, a papal nephew’s palace that became the Museum of Rome

That family was the Braschi. Luigi Braschi Onesti was the nephew of Pope Pius VI, elected in 1775, and the pope had the architect Cosimo Morelli design this palace as a gift for him at the end of the 18th century. The museum itself presents the building as a lesson in papal nepotism, the habit popes had of making their relatives rich. Building work was held up by the Napoleonic occupation of Rome.

The Museum of Rome was founded in 1930 and moved into the palace in 1952, which is why a building put up to show off one family now tells the story of the whole city.

Walking to Palazzo Braschi’s entrance on Piazza di San Pantaleo

The palace fills the block between Piazza Navona and Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, the big street along its far side, so if you’re staying in the historic centre you’ll walk there. The palace’s address is Piazza Navona 2, but the entrance is round the back at Piazza di San Pantaleo 10, facing the Corso, and Campo de’ Fiori is about three minutes’ walk from there.