OGR Torino

OGR Torino tickets: you pay for the exhibition, not the courtyard

At OGR you buy a ticket for an exhibition or a concert, not for the place, because there’s no permanent collection. The Corte Est, the courtyard with its open-air art, is free for everyone, and so is the video installation showing there this winter.

The exhibition on until 29 November is Mind Your Brain!, at €8. Students up to 25, over-65s, members of the Italian associations ARCI, FAI and TCI, and Torino+Piemonte Card holders pay €5, and under-6s go in free. You can buy tickets at the OGR ticket office or online on Boxol, and guided visits, in Italian, need booking.

Concerts and events are ticketed separately, on Boxol, Dice and other sites, and the OGR shop sells concert tickets without a presale fee. Between 4 and 22 November the programme includes OGR Talks and the Paranoia Festival. If you use a wheelchair, write to OGR three working days before a concert.

OGR on the Torino+Piemonte Card: the reduced exhibition ticket

At OGR the Torino+Piemonte Card gets you the reduced exhibition ticket, €5 for Mind Your Brain!, and the courtyard costs nothing anyway. Each exhibition sets its own rules, so the next one may treat the card differently.

Mind Your Brain! at OGR Torino, until 29 November

Mind Your Brain! comes from Heureka, in Finland, and fills Binario 2, one of OGR’s exhibition halls. It’s interactive and made for all ages: each group gets a “portable brain”, a key that switches on the installations as you go.

The installations deal with emotions, the senses and sleep, how the brain is built and how it changes through a lifetime. Along the way are poems by the Finnish writer Laura Ruohonen, translated by Irene Sorrentino.

Inversions in the Corte Est, free until 10 January

Out in the Corte Est, Samson Young’s video Inversions plays until 10 January 2027, as part of the 29th edition of Luci d’Artista, whose theme this year is Memories and Future Dreams. It runs for six and a half minutes and sets the Kam Tin Tree House, in Hong Kong, against scenes from the 1978 film Drunken Master, with percussion by David Cossin.

The courtyard keeps longer hours than the exhibitions: from 8:00 on weekdays and 9:00 at weekends, until midnight, or later on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Snodo, the restaurant side of OGR, is open late too.

OGR Torino opening hours: exhibitions close on Tuesdays

From railway workshops to OGR, since 1895

The Officine Grandi Riparazioni opened in 1895 to repair the railways’ rolling stock, on a site between the Porta Nuova and Porta Susa stations. They covered 190,000 square metres and employed 2,000 people. Today OGR is run as the hub of the Fondazione CRT, with art and performance under OGR Cult, start-ups under OGR Tech, and Snodo for food and drink.

Metro line 1 to Vinzaglio for OGR Torino

OGR is at Corso Castelfidardo 22, between Porta Nuova and Porta Susa. The easy way is metro line 1 to Vinzaglio, about 10 minutes on foot, and Porta Susa station is about 10 minutes’ walk too. Tram 9 and buses 68, 12, 33 and 58 stop at Inghilterra. If you drive, there are car parks at Nino Bixio (Via Nino Bixio 46), the Palagiustizia and Corso Stati Uniti 49, with spaces for disabled drivers at Corso Castelfidardo 16A.