Pinacoteca Agnelli and the Pista 500

Pinacoteca Agnelli tickets: the gallery, the Pista 500, or both

The roof of the Lingotto has two visits, the picture gallery and the Pista 500, and you can buy them together or one at a time. Booking isn’t required.

The reduced price is for 13- to 25-year-olds, over-65s and groups of eight or more, and the museum sells the tickets itself. You can also walk into the Casa Fiat and the FIATCafé500, on the same roof, without a museum ticket.

One Torino+Piemonte Card for the Pinacoteca, the track and the car museums

The Torino+Piemonte Card includes the Pinacoteca and the Pista 500, with no booking. It also includes the two car museums MAUTO runs: MAUTO itself, about nine minutes’ walk from the Lingotto metro stop, and the Centro Storico Fiat, near Dante on the same metro line.

Matisse, Canaletto, Picasso and Canova in the Pinacoteca Agnelli

The Scrigno, the “treasure chest”, is a steel and glass box hung above the Lingotto roof, with sun screens that filter the light, and it holds 25 works from the collection Gianni and Marella Agnelli gave. They run from the 18th century to the middle of the 20th.

The 18th century is Venice and Dresden: six views of Venice by Canaletto, two of Dresden by Bellotto and Tiepolo’s Halberdier. From there the collection moves through Manet and Renoir to the 20th century, and its biggest group is Matisse’s: seven canvases, a set you won’t find anywhere else in Italy. Picasso is there twice, in a portrait from his Blue Period and a cubist one, along with Modigliani, Severini and a futurist painting by Balla from 1913. There are also two plaster dancers by Canova.

The Pista 500: Fiat’s rooftop test track as a garden

The Pista 500 is the Lingotto’s old test track, the one from The Italian Job: a ring 1.1 km long, 28 metres above the street. Since 2022 it has been part of the Pinacoteca as a garden, designed by the architect Benedetto Camerana with Cristiana Ruspa, with more than 40,000 plants of 300 species, all from Piedmont and the land around it. Works by 27 artists, Nan Goldin and Felix Gonzalez-Torres among them, stand along the way.

It’s a walk, not a ride: bikes, scooters, skateboards and skates aren’t allowed, nor are glass or metal objects, and the only animals allowed are assistance animals. The south ramp is for pedestrians only and climbs at more than 8%, worth knowing with a pushchair or a wheelchair, and photos and video are for personal use only.

Back inside, the Casa Fiat tells the company’s story from 1899 around the wooden master model of the 500.

Pinacoteca Agnelli winter opening hours

The Pista 500 keeps the same hours as the gallery.

The Lingotto, from Fiat factory to Renzo Piano’s gallery

The Lingotto, designed by Giacomo Matté-Trucco, went up between 1916 and 1923 with the test track on its roof, and the architect Le Corbusier called it one of the most impressive sights in industry. Fiat decided to close it in 1982, and Renzo Piano finished converting it in 1989.

The Pinacoteca followed on 19 September 2002, in Piano’s Scrigno, for the collection the Agnellis gave, and since 2022 it has spread out onto the Pista 500.

Getting into the Pinacoteca Agnelli through the Lingotto

The way in is through the Lingotto complex, which is now a shopping centre. Come in at Via Nizza 262, by the Lingotto stop on metro line 1, or at Via Fenoglietti 15, opposite Eataly, and follow the signs inside. If you drive, the museum suggests sector L of the car park. The museum has videos in Italian Sign Language and audio captions, and a page on accessibility for anything else.