Rome exhibitions

Current exhibitions in Rome: contemporary art, painting, sculpture, photography, design and archeology; times, periods, cost and purchase of tickets and exhibition venues.

Exhibitions in Rome by artistic sector: Painting, Sculpture, Modern Art, Contemporary Art, Photography, Archaeology.

Exhibitions in Rome by season: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, 2023.

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Una movida Bárbara. Fotografie di Ouka Leele - Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Piazza Sant'Egidio, 1/b - Rome

Exhibition from April 17 to July 7, 2024

At the Museum of Rome in Trastevere, an exhibition, the second of a cycle organized with the Cultural Office of the Spanish Embassy in Rome dedicated to the cultural movement of the 1980s, presents the photographic and pictorial production of the Madrid artist.

Visita al Bunker e ai rifugi antiaerei di Villa Torlonia - Casino Nobile, Villa Torlonia, Via Nomentana, 70 - Roma

Exhibition from 5 April to 31 December 2024

Villa Torlonia - after important restoration and arrangement works - the air raid shelter reopens to the public with a new multimedia display and Mussolini's Bunker at Villa Torlonia: two structures built in the early years of the Second World War below the Casino Nobile.

Il sogno di Ulisse Aldrovandi - Museo Civico di Zoologia, via Ulisse Aldrovandi, 18 - Roma

Exhibition from March 22 to July 21, 2024

The exhibition Beyond Space, Beyond Time opens at the Civic Museum of Zoology. The dream of Ulisse Aldrovandi, produced by the Golinelli Foundation and SMA - University Museum System, Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna and created in collaboration with INAF – National Institute of Astrophysics.

Giuseppe Primoli e il fascino dell'Oriente - Museo Napoleonico, Piazza di Ponte Umberto I, 1 - Rome

Exhibition running from 15 March to 8 September 2024

The exhibition is dedicated to collecting oriental and Japanese art: Giuseppe Primoli and the charm of the East. In conjunction with the Ukiyoe exhibition. The floating world. Visions from Japan underway at the Museum of Rome in Palazzo Braschi.

Carla Accardi - Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Via Nazionale, 194 - Roma

Exhibition running from 9 March to 1 September 2024

Palazzo Esposizioni Rome presents an exhibition on Carla Accardi (Trapani 1924-Rome 2014) - on the occasion of the centenary of her birth, which due to the number and importance of the works on display is configured as the more exhaustive so far dedicated to the artist.

UKIYOE. Il Mondo Fluttuante. Visioni dal Giappone - Museo di Roma, Palazzo Braschi,  Piazza Navona, 2 e Piazza San Pantaleo, 10 - Rome

Exhibition running from 20 February to 23 June 2024

At the Museum of Rome an exhibition presents one hundred and fifty masterpieces of Japanese art from the Edo era, between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, focusing on what is was the most artistic trend innovative of the time and still internationally influential today: theukiyoe.

Architetture Inabitabili - Centrale Montemartini, Via Ostiense, 106 - Rome

Exhibition running from 24 January to 29 September 2024

An event by Archivio Luce Cinecittà goes on display at the Centrale Montemartini which explores the complexity of 8 Italian "uninhabitable architectures" through 150 photographs, historical videos and unpublished texts by writers.

«La poesia ti guarda». Omaggio al Gruppo 70 - GAM, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, via Francesco Crispi 24 - Rome

Exhibition from December 1, 2023 to September 15, 2024

A tribute exhibition opens at Gam in Rome towards the artistic association that theorized and practiced "visual poetry" in the neo-avant-garde season.

Nel segno di Cambellotti. Virgilio Retrosi artista e artigiano - Casina delle Civette, Villa Torlonia, Via Nomentana, 70 - Rome

Exhibition running from November 25, 2023 to October 13, 2024

Villa Torlonia presents an exhibition on Virgilio Retrosi (Rome 1892-1975), artist present in the collections of the Museum of Rome with the 14 plates parade dedicated to the historic districts of Rome. The event intends to present the figure of to the general public an artist who dedicated his life to the applied arts.

Hours: from Tuesday to Sunday from 9.00 to 19.00 (the ticket office closes 45 minutes before). On 24 and 31 December from 9.00 to 14.00. Closed on Mondays, December 25th and May 1st.
Tickets: full price €11; reduced € 9. Free for residents of Rome on the first Sunday of the month (upon presentation of an identity document).
Telephone: 060608 (every day from 9.00 to 19.00).
Email: [email protected]
Web: Villa Torlonia

L'avventura della moneta - Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Via Nazionale, 194 - Rome

Exhibition running from 31 October 2023 to 30 June 2024

Palazzo Esposizioni Rome presents an exhibition that offers a journey through time, to discover the main events that have characterized the history of money and finance in the world.

L'allieva di danza di Venanzo Crocetti. Il ritorno - GAM, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, via Francesco Crispi 24 - Rome

Exhibition from 23 June to 2 Februuary 2025

At Gam in Rome, after more than two years of careful and specialized restoration by ICR technicians, it returns to be exhibited to the public, from 23 June to 14 January 2024 at the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome, The dance student (1958-59), one of the first major sculptural works by Venanzo Crocetti (1913-2003) on the theme of dance.

I Colori dell’Antico. Marmi Santarelli ai Musei Capitolini - Musei Capitolini, Piazza del Campidoglio - Rome

Exhibition running from 13 April 2022 to 30 April 2032

On display is a broad overview of the use of colored marbles, from its origins to the 20th century, through a refined selection of pieces from the Santarelli Foundation.

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Leonardo da Vinci. Il genio e le invenzioni - Palazzo della Cancelleria, Piazza della Cancelleria, 1 - Rome

Exhibition running permanently

The Exhibition at the Palazzo della Cancelleria offers an interactive itinerary particularly dedicated to the youngest visitors who want to discover the genius of Leonardo.
More than two hundred wooden machines designed by Leonardo and sixty-five models made following the designs of the master from Vinci are on display.