Exhibitions
in Rome
Exhibitions
in Rome
A MONTHLY OVERVIEW
EXHIBITIONS IN ROME
Here you can find detailed information about the exhibitions taking place in Rome each month!
Just click on the desired month, and you will receive the information on exhibitions, festivals and other activities!
Have fun browsing!
September
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October
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November
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December
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January
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February
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March
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April
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May
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June
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July
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August
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Who writes and tests the exhibitions for you?
We are Céline & Susi and we are testing the exhibitions in Rome for you!
Céline is always busy picking out the highlights of the months for you and we both go to the museums and visit the exhibitions! And of course we love doing that 🙂
So have fun browsing and visiting!
Exhibition at the Colosseum
Troy and Rome
Troy and Rome: Myths, Legends and Stories from the Ancient Mediterranean
12 June – 18 October 2026
This summer, you can discover the major exhibition Troy and Rome at the Colosseum Archaeological Park, which includes both the Colosseum and the Roman Forum.
Susi has already visited the exhibition and is currently working on her full review – so stay tuned!
The exhibition is included in the standard Colosseum admission ticket.
We’ve been there, and our full report will be available soon!
Top 3 exhibitions
September 2026
Galleria Corsini
Perspectives. Photographing the Palazzo Corsini
until 4 October 2026
Buy tickets (for Corsini and Palazzo Barberini)
Macro Museum
Miriam Cahn, “What Looks at Me”
until November 15, 2026
WeGil
From Renoir to Picasso, from Miró to Fontana: 120 Masterpieces of 20th-Century Graphic Art
until 13 September 2026
other exhibitions
in September
Ara Pacis
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Forms of Beauty
until 4 October 2026
Exhibition Ticket on site!
Buy regular Pacis Tickets (without exhibition)
Baths of Diocletian
Rome Reflected in Coinage: Art and Power in the History of the Eternal City
until 27 September 2026
Capitolin Museums
Angels – Messengers, Protectors, and Guides, Sublime Beings from Antiquity to the Present
Ground Floor of the Palazzo dei Conservatori
until 1 November 2026
The colours of antiquity. The Santarelli Marbles in the Capitoline Museums
Clementine Palace
Until 30 April 2032 (not a typo 😀 )
Diego Rivera and the Emergence of Modern Art in 20th-Century Mexico
until 13 December 2026
The Unfinished: Between Poetry and Execution Technique
Art Gallery
Extended until 4 January 2027
Colossal 3D Statue of Constantine
Garden of Villa Caffarelli
until 31 December 2026
free admission
Buy tickets for exhibition
It’s not entirely clear which exhibition is included. Anyone wanting to be sure about Vasari can check here again.
Carlo Bilotti Museum
Magic Lantern: Photographs from the Valerio De Paolis Collection
until 6 September 2026
Casa di Goethe
NEWTON | GOETHE | GALILEO. Reflections by Mischa Kuball
until 4 October 2026
Castel Sant’Angelo
Panopliae. Sets of Arms. Weapons, Ingenuity, and Power
until 4 October 2026
Chiostro di Bramante
FLOWERS. Flowers in Art, from the Renaissance to the Virtual Age
Extended until 6 September 2026
What to expect?
A tribute to floral representations in art history. The exhibition showcases works from the Renaissance to digital art and explores how artists throughout the centuries have used flowers as symbols of beauty, transience, and emotion.
Colosseum
Troy and Rome: Myths, Legends and Stories from the Ancient Mediterranean
until 18 October 2026
The exhibition is included in the standard Colosseum admission ticket.
We’ve been there, and our full report will be available soon!
Tickets: official website
Or with our Agency (ab it more expensive)
Galleria Borghese
Metamorphoses
until 20 September 2026
What can you expect?
Over 80 masterpieces from the world’s leading museums will showcase works by Titian, Correggio, Cellini, Caravaggio, Rubens, Rodin, Brancusi, and Bourgeois. What connects them all? Each of them referenced Ovid—one of the greatest poets of antiquity—in their own time. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Rijksmuseum (on view until May 25, 2026) and the Galleria Borghese in Rome.
Galleria Corsini
Perspectives. Photographing the Palazzo Corsini
until 4 October 2026
Buy tickets (for Corsini and Palazzo Barberini)
Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma Capitale
GAM 100. A Century of Urban Galleries 1925–2025
until 11 October 2026
GNAM
Artist at GNAMC: Marinella Senatore, Protagonist 2026
until 31 December 2026
After a Work Trip. Fendi / Karl Lagerfeld 1985: FOLLOWING STEPS THROUGH THE WORK.
until 25 October 2026
House-Museum Boncompagni Ludovisi
Vanessa Noel – Dream Shoes
until 6 September 2026
Macro Museum
Miriam Cahn, “What Looks at Me”
until 15 November 2026
MAXXI
Andrea Pazienza: We Don’t Always Die
until 27 September 2026
Tragicomic. Perspectives on Italian Art from the Late 20th Century to the Present
until 20 September 2026
Proceeds: TAKK – Living Together
until 10 January 2027
Creatures, Creators: Saint Francis and Contemporary Art
until 20 September 2026
The Large Glass
Until 25 October 2026
Alberto Garutti: Installation
Until 10 October 2026
Architecture from Italy
until 15 November 2026
Ramak Fazel: Milan Unit
until 22 November 2026
Museo della Mura
Moto a luogo #2
The Academies of Fine Arts of Frosinone and Rome meet archaeology
until 4 October 2026
Museo dell’Arte Salvata
EGYPT – From the Nile to the Mediterranean. Oases and Desert in Roman Times.
until 15 November 2026
Museo di Roma
Ettore Scola. We Never Left Each Other
until 13 September 2026
Museo di Roma in Trastevere
Rome by Night. Photographs by Hervé Gloaguen
until 6 September 2026
Along the Blue Highways
Photographs by Francesco Conversano
until 4 October 2026
New York by Matilde Damele
until 13 September 2026
Palazzo Barberini
A Vermeer at Palazzo Barberini: Woman in Blue Reading a Letter
until 11 October 2026
What to expect?
The exhibition features just a single painting—yet that is precisely what makes it so compelling. At its heart is Vermeer’s famous *Woman in Blue Reading a Letter*, arriving in Rome as a rare loan from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The masterpiece is accompanied by engaging multimedia stations that offer insights into Vermeer’s painting technique, the restoration of the work, and life in 17th-century Delft.
Palazzo Bonaparte
Kandinsky
15 September 2026 to 14 February 2027
Villa Medici
Oracles Beyond the Sea
Exhibition of Villa Medici Fellows
until 7 September 2026
Villa Torlonia
Under a lucky star. The emblem of the Italian Republic in the papers of Paolo Paschetto
until 27 September 2026
Pedro Cano. Siete und Rom
bis 13. September 2026
Elisa Montessori.Over time
30 September 2026 to 28 February 2027
WeGil
From Renoir to Picasso, from Miró to Fontana: 120 Masterpieces of 20th-Century Graphic Art
until 13 September 2026
Top 3 Exhibitions
October 2026
Palazzo Barberini
A Vermeer at Palazzo Barberini: Woman in Blue Reading a Letter
until 11 October 2026
What to expect?
The exhibition features just a single painting—yet that is precisely what makes it so compelling. At its heart is Vermeer’s famous *Woman in Blue Reading a Letter*, arriving in Rome as a rare loan from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The masterpiece is accompanied by engaging multimedia stations that offer insights into Vermeer’s painting technique, the restoration of the work, and life in 17th-century Delft.
Ara Pacis
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Forms of Beauty
until 4 October 2026
Exhibition Ticket on site!
Buy regular Pacis Tickets (without exhibition)
Colosseum
Troy and Rome: Myths, Legends and Stories from the Ancient Mediterranean
until 18 October 2026
The exhibition is included in the standard Colosseum admission ticket.
We’ve been there, and our full report will be available soon!
Tickets: official website
Or with our Agency (ab it more expensive)
other exhibitions
in October
Ara Pacis
Robert Mapplethorpe: The Forms of Beauty
until 4 October 2026
Exhibition Ticket on site!
Buy regular Pacis Tickets (without exhibition)
Capitolin Museums
Angels – Messengers, Protectors, and Guides, Sublime Beings from Antiquity to the Present
Ground Floor of the Palazzo dei Conservatori
until 1 November 2026
The colours of antiquity. The Santarelli Marbles in the Capitoline Museums
Clementine Palace
Until 30 April 2032 (not a typo 😀 )
Diego Rivera and the Emergence of Modern Art in 20th-Century Mexico
until 13 December 2026
The Unfinished: Between Poetry and Execution Technique
Art Gallery
Extended until 4 January 2027
Colossal 3D Statue of Constantine
Garden of Villa Caffarelli
until 31 December 2026
free admission
Buy tickets for exhibition
It’s not entirely clear which exhibition is included. Anyone wanting to be sure about Vasari can check here again.
Casa di Goethe
NEWTON | GOETHE | GALILEO. Reflections by Mischa Kuball
until 4 October 2026
Castel Sant’Angelo
Panopliae. Sets of Arms. Weapons, Ingenuity, and Power
until 4 October 2026
Colosseum
Troy and Rome: Myths, Legends and Stories from the Ancient Mediterranean
until 18 October 2026
The exhibition is included in the standard Colosseum admission ticket.
We’ve been there, and our full report will be available soon!
Tickets: official website
Or with our Agency (ab it more expensive)
Galleria Corsini
Perspectives. Photographing the Palazzo Corsini
until 4 October 2026
Buy tickets (for Corsini and Palazzo Barberini)
Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma Capitale
GAM 100. A Century of Urban Galleries 1925–2025
until 11 October 2026
GNAM
Artist at GNAMC: Marinella Senatore, Protagonist 2026
until 31 December 2026
After a Work Trip. Fendi / Karl Lagerfeld 1985: FOLLOWING STEPS THROUGH THE WORK.
until 25 October 2026
Macro Museum
Miriam Cahn, “What Looks at Me”
until 15 November 2026
MAXXI
Sophie Calle: Weddings, Breakups, and Funerals Included
16 October 2026 to 7 February 2027
Proceeds: TAKK – Living Together
until 10 January 2027
The Large Glass
Until 25 October 2026
Alberto Garutti: Installation
Until 10 October 2026
Architecture from Italy
until 15 November 2026
Ramak Fazel: Milan Unit
until 22 November 2026
Museo della Mura
Moto a luogo #2
The Academies of Fine Arts of Frosinone and Rome meet archaeology
until 4 October 2026
Museo dell’Arte Salvata
EGYPT – From the Nile to the Mediterranean. Oases and Desert in Roman Times.
until 15 November 2026
Museo di Roma
Keith Haring
6 October to 11 April 2027
Museo di Roma in Trastevere
Along the Blue Highways
Photographs by Francesco Conversano
until 4 October 2026
Palazzo Barberini
A Vermeer at Palazzo Barberini: Woman in Blue Reading a Letter
until 11 October 2026
What to expect?
The exhibition features just a single painting—yet that is precisely what makes it so compelling. At its heart is Vermeer’s famous *Woman in Blue Reading a Letter*, arriving in Rome as a rare loan from the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. The masterpiece is accompanied by engaging multimedia stations that offer insights into Vermeer’s painting technique, the restoration of the work, and life in 17th-century Delft.
Palazzo Bonaparte
Kandinsky
until 14 February 2027
Scuderie del Quirinale
PONTORMO (Renaissance and Mannerist painter Jacopo Pontormo)
8 October 2026 to 7 February 2027
Villa Medici
Soleil noir: Oil and Contemporary Art
9 October 2026 to 18 January 2027
Villa Torlonia
Elisa Montessori.Over time
until 28 February 2027
Top 3 Exhibitions
November 2026
Museo di Roma
Keith Haring
until 11 April 2027
Palazzo Bonaparte
Kandinsky
until 14 February 2027
Macro Museum
Miriam Cahn, “What Looks at Me”
until 15 November 2026
other exhibitions
in November
Capitolin Museums
Angels – Messengers, Protectors, and Guides, Sublime Beings from Antiquity to the Present
Ground Floor of the Palazzo dei Conservatori
until 1 November 2026
The colours of antiquity. The Santarelli Marbles in the Capitoline Museums
Clementine Palace
Until 30 April 2032 (not a typo 😀 )
Diego Rivera and the Emergence of Modern Art in 20th-Century Mexico
until 13 December 2026
The Unfinished: Between Poetry and Execution Technique
Art Gallery
Extended until 4 January 2027
Colossal 3D Statue of Constantine
Garden of Villa Caffarelli
until 31 December 2026
free admission
Buy tickets for exhibition
It’s not entirely clear which exhibition is included. Anyone wanting to be sure about Vasari can check here again.
GNAM
Artist at GNAMC: Marinella Senatore, Protagonist 2026
until 31 December 2026
Macro Museum
Miriam Cahn, “What Looks at Me”
until 15 November 2026
MAXXI
Sophie Calle: Weddings, Breakups, and Funerals Included
until 7 February 2027
Proceeds: TAKK – Living Together
until 10 January 2027
Architecture from Italy
until 15 November 2026
Ramak Fazel: Milan Unit
until 22 November 2026
Museo dell’Arte Salvata
EGYPT – From the Nile to the Mediterranean. Oases and Desert in Roman Times.
until 15 November 2026
Museo di Roma
Keith Haring
until 11 April 2027
Palazzo Bonaparte
Kandinsky
until 14 February 2027
Scuderie del Quirinale
PONTORMO (Renaissance and Mannerist painter Jacopo Pontormo)
until 7 February 2027
Villa Medici
Soleil noir: Oil and Contemporary Art
until 18 January 2027
Villa Torlonia
Elisa Montessori.Over time
until 28 February 2027
Text and image rights: © Céline Mülich, 2021 – 2026
Exceptions: Exhibition posters of the various museums. We use these to advertise the exhibitions.