Borghese Gallery tickets: official prices and booking

No. Borghese Gallery Visit is an independent visitor guide. The official website is galleriaborghese.cultura.gov.it, run by the museum, which is part of the Italian Ministry of Culture. We are not the museum and we do not run it. The tickets and tours featured here are sold by our partner Tiqets, a third party, not by the museum. Official ticket: 18 € with booking; ticket via Tiqets: 50 € at the time of writing.

Yes, always. The official site says the reservation is compulsory for every category of ticket, including the free ticket for under-18s. You enter only at the start of each hour, in a slot of two hours, and you must leave when it ends. The reservation fee is 2 €.

Tuesday to Sunday from 9:00 to 19:00, with the last entry at 17:45. It is closed on Mondays, on 25 December and on 1 January. For 24 and 31 December the official site gives no special hours. Hours read on 23 October 2026.

Official price: 16 € plus a 2 € booking, 18 € in total, or 13 € for the 17:45 slot. EU citizens aged 18 to 25 pay only the 2 € booking. Under-18s and some other categories enter free apart from the 2 € booking, with a document proving the right. Tiqets lists its reserved entry at 50 € at the time of writing, with a mobile ticket delivered at once, according to Tiqets. Read the terms of what you buy.

The ticket office sells last-minute tickets, but the museum says same-day entry is not assured and availability is limited. They are sold only from minute 20 of each hour, for a visit of 1 hour 30 minutes, and you can buy only 2 per person. They are not sold on free days. The ticket office can also sell a ticket for the first available date. We would book ahead.

At most two hours, and you must leave when your slot ends. The 17:45 slot lasts 1 hour 15 minutes. The public rooms are 20 frescoed rooms, the portico and the entrance hall.

No. The official site lets in only small belt bags and pouches up to 21 x 15 cm. Backpacks, medium and large bags, shopping bags and luggage go to the cloakroom, which takes limited luggage while space lasts and is not guaranteed. The ticketing operator's page says all bags must be left, so leave everything you can. Food, drinks (water too) and animals, except guide dogs, are not allowed.

We found no general ban in the rooms. The official site's page on photography says that reproducing works for personal, non-profit purposes is free without flash, tripod or touching them, and the management may ban photography for particular displays or exhibitions, so look for signs. Selfie sticks are not allowed.

The museum is part of the Roma Pass circuit, for the 48-hour and 72-hour cards. The official site says booking is compulsory and can be made online at romapass.ticketone.it, and that you show the card at the ticket office to have it validated. It does not say whether the card gives free or reduced entry or whether the 2 € booking fee is charged, so check before you book.

Yes, apart from the compulsory 2 € booking fee. The same applies on 25 April, 2 June and 4 November. Tickets are released 10 days before and last-minute tickets are not sold on those days.

Official tickets cannot be changed or refunded, says the museum. For our partner Tiqets, the reserved entry and the 54 € guided tour are not cancellable, according to Tiqets. For the other products, the conditions are on the Tiqets page.

Villa Borghese is the public park, free to enter. The Galleria Borghese is the museum inside it, in the villa that Cardinal Scipione Borghese had built, and it needs a ticket with a compulsory booking. The nearest park entrance to the museum is on Via Pinciana.