Palazzo Altemps

Includes both ground floor and first floor of the building.

Entrance from the usual public entrance, on Piazza di S. Apollinare 46

Toilets for visitors will be available on the ground floor

Palazzo Massimo

The tour includes: the ground floor, the second floor on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, and the second floor on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.

Entrance from the usual public entrance on Largo di Villa Peretti, 2.

The exit will be from Largo di Villa Peretti.

Baths of Diocletian

The itinerary includes: the Garden of the Five Hundred, the Great Halls of the Baths (Halls VIII, IX, X, XI, and XI bis), the Natatio, the Michelangiolesco Cloister, the small Cloister of the Charterhouse, and the ground floor of the Museum of Written Communication (rooms I to V).

Entrance from the traditional access from Via Enrico de Nicola, 78.

The exit will be reached by a different route from Via Enrico de Nicola, 78.

Restrooms will be available for visitors on the ground floor at the Chiostro Michelangiolesco.

Crypta Balbi

The itinerary includes the ground floor, and the second floor of the museum.

The external archaeological area is currently closed to the public.

Entrance from the traditional access from via delle Botteghe Oscure, 31.

The exit will be from via delle Botteghe Oscure, 31.

Restrooms on the first floor will be available to visitors.

Terms of Access

Visitors may enter the museum only if wearing a face mask and with a valid ticket with a specific visit turn assigned at the moment of purchase.

The rental of audio guides, devices with keyboards, and viewers is suspended.

Group visits, accompanied or not, are allowed up to 21 participants, including the guide, subject to the use of their own PPE (personal protection equipment) and  ensuring social distancing. In the case of heterogeneous groups accompanied by a guide, the latter must enforce the safety distance within the group.

The use of lifts is limited to one person at a time, and is preferably reserved to visitors with mobility difficulties and one accompanying person.

The use of toilets inside the buildings will be regulated in such a way as to always provide for social distancing (1.5 meters).

The cafeteria service at Palazzo Massimo will remain closed.

Immediately before entering the venues, visitors will check their body temperature using infrared devices.

If the temperature is higher than 37.5°C, visitors will be asked to return home immediately and to inform their general practitioner; they will be asked to provide their personal data (first name, last name, telephone number) to be communicated to the health authorities.

Subsequently, visitors will pass the dematerialized ticket control.

Visitors will follow the signs placed at the entrances to respect the 1.5 meters distance.

Visiting routes will be one-way, avoiding as much as possible the intersections of flows.

Concession conditions

Admission to the National Roman Museum is free for all European Union and non-European Union citizens aged less than 18 years, on presentation of an identity card.

Free admission to the National Roman Museum is also reserved for the following groups:

• Disabled individuals and a relative or other accompanying person who can demonstrate that he/she works in social or health care services;
• Citizens of non-European Union nations, on condition of reciprocity (children under 12 years must be accompanied);
• Tour guides from the European Union in the exercise of their professional activities, on presentation of a valid licence issued by the competent authority;
• Tourist interpreters from the European Union when their assistance is required alongside the guide, on presentation of a valid licence issued by the competent authority;
• Ministry personnel;
• Members of the International Council of Museums (ICOM);
• Groups and parties of students from state and private schools in the European Union, accompanied by their teachers, subject to booking and in the number determined by the head of the institution;
• Students on advanced training courses organised by MiBACT schools (Central Institute for Restoration, Institute for Restoration of Semi-Precious Stones, School for the Restoration of Mosaics);
• Teachers and students enrolled in the fine arts academies or corresponding institutions in the European Union, on presentation of a certificate of registration or enrolment for the current academic year;
• Teachers and students of degree courses, specialist degree courses or post-graduate or doctoral courses in the following faculties: architecture, cultural heritage conservation, educational sciences or literature and philosophy with an archaeological or history/arts specialisation. The same concessions are granted to teachers and students of corresponding faculties and courses from European Union institutions. Free admission is granted to students on presentation of a certificate of enrolment for the current academic year and to teachers on presentation of an appropriate document;
• Teachers of art history from high schools, on presentation of an appropriate document;
• Journalists, on presentation of an appropriate document proving their professional credentials;
• For reasons of study or research, certified by schools or universities, academies and research and cultural institutes in Italy and abroad, or by the Ministry, or for specific motivated requirements, the heads of the institutions may allow free admission to the exhibition spaces for which they are responsible for specified periods to persons making corresponding requests;
• Licensed tourist guides from the European Union;
• Teaching staff under permanent or short-term contracts with Italian schools are permitted free admission to the museums, archaeological areas and sites and monumental complexes owned by the Government.