Notte dei Musei 2025

On Saturday 17 May, Rome stays lit up late with the 15th edition of the Night of Museums 2025, more than 60 open spaces and 100 shows of all kinds in the Civic Museums of Roma Capitale and in many other cultural spaces of the city

Concerts, shows, screenings, exhibitions and many other activities. From 8.00 p.m. on Saturday to 2.00 a.m. on Sunday, the Civic Museums of Roma Capitale and many other cultural venues in Rome will be extraordinarily open to the public in the evening hours at the symbolic cost of €1 (except where otherwise indicated) for an evening of art and entertainment, in conjunction with the Nuit Européenne Des Musées, the customary springtime celebration of the encounter between the arts.

The Civic Museums of Roma Capitale will host a wide-ranging programme: from theatre acts to film screenings set to live music, from video art to performances, from readings to many musical interventions of different genres, for a long and articulated journey with tributes to great personalities of the past and influences from every era and part of the world.

Special guest will be the Spanish dancer Sergio Bernal, an artist of international renown, who will offer the public of the Ara Pacis Museum the performance Pax, an evening of dance and song for peace performed in front of the monument in honour of the pax augustea. His unmistakable style, an extraordinary mix of flamenco and classical ballet, will be expressed through a solo inspired by Auguste Rodin's The Thinker, an emblematic figure representing the depth of human thought that becomes a choreographic gesture of reflection and hope. Next to him, the Andalusian singer Paz de Manuel, whose flamenco voice will help shape the individual inner harmony towards which the performance aims to lead the audience.

With a strong message of peace, will be the videomapping performance No Borders, realised by the FLxER collective with original music by Agostino Maria Ticino (starting at 8.30 p.m. and ending at 1 a.m.), on the façade of the Casina del Salvi in the Archaeological Park of the Caelian Hill.

The opening moment will be entrusted to the Banda musicale del Corpo di Polizia Locale di Roma Capitale. Its orchestra of 80 wind instruments will symbolically open the Notte dei Musei 2025 by welcoming visitors in Piazza del Campidoglio from 7.30 p.m. onwards. In Piazza Montecitorio, the Banda della Guardia di Finanza will perform, from 8.00 p.m. to 8.15 p.m., to entertain the public before the extraordinary opening of the Camera dei Deputati (free admission with compulsory booking on the website of the Camera dei Deputati). The Senato della Repubblica (from 8.00 p.m. to midnight, last entrance at 11.30 p.m.) will also take part in the initiative, allowing the public to visit Palazzo Madama exceptionally and free of charge by collecting tickets on site from 7.00 p.m.

The Museums of Roma Capitale accessible at the cost of €1 or free of charge with the MIC Card are: Musei Capitolini, Centrale Montemartini, Mercati di Traiano - Musei dei Fori Imperiali, Museo dell’Ara Pacis, Museo di Roma, Museo di Roma in Trastevere, Musei di Villa Torlonia, Museo Civico di Zoologia, Galleria d'Arte Moderna and the Museo della Forma Urbis.

Open and free for all: Museo Napoleonico, Museo Pietro Canonica, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Museo di scultura antica Giovanni Barracco, Museo della Repubblica Romana e della memoria garibaldina, Museo di Casal de' Pazzi, Villa di Massenzio (from 8.00 p.m. to 1.00 a.m., last admission 12.00 a.m.) and the Parco Archeologico del Celio.

The exhibitions Franco Fontana. Retrospective at the Ara Pacis Museum and Amano Corpus Animae at the Museo di Roma can be visited with a reduced ticket price of €11.00 (purchase at the ticket office from 8.00 p.m. until full capacity is reached). The exhibition I Farnese nella Roma del Cinquecento. Origini e fortuna di una collezione will be accessible with compulsory pre-sale on www.museiincomuneroma.it at a cost of €1 to be added to the €1 museum entrance ticket.

During the evening, the Planetarium of Rome and the Bunker with the air-raid shelters at Villa Torlonia will also be open (advance booking required).

The opening of the Civic Museums of Rome will also be joined by the adhesions of other institutions in the city such as universities, schools, Italian and foreign academies, embassies, and institutes of higher education that will open their spaces free of charge, making it possible to visit prestigious places that are not always accessible. To these will be added other museums or exhibition spaces in the city that will extend their opening hours, allowing you to visit their collections or current exhibitions and attend a programme of initiatives designed for the occasion.

The Notte dei Musei 2025 is promoted by Roma Capitale, Assessorato alla Cultura, Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali and organised by Zètema Progetto Cultura. Official radio station: Dimensione Suono Roma. Travel partner: Trainline

For all updates and the complete list of participating structures, see www.museiincomuneroma.it

The programme of the Notte dei Musei 2025 may be subject to change