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Borghese Gallery ticket prices
Full price: €16 plus the compulsory €2 booking fee: €18. The last slot of the day (5.45pm, 1 hour 15 minutes) is €11 plus the fee.
Reduced: €2 plus the fee, for visitors from 18 until their 25th birthday who are EU citizens, citizens of countries with reciprocity, or holders of a regular residence permit.
Free, but still booked: under-18s; disabled visitors and one companion; some EU student and teacher categories, ICOM members and others listed by the museum. Free tickets still pay the €2 fee, except disabled visitors and their companion, licensed EU tour guides, journalists with a press card, and children up to 5.
Roma Pass: the 48-hour and 72-hour Roma Pass include the Borghese Gallery, but you must still book, by phone on +39 06 32810, on the official site, or at romapass@tosc.it, and pay the €2 fee.
Exhibitions are part of the normal route on the same ticket, but the price can rise while one is on. Check the price when you book.
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How to book the Borghese Gallery
Booking is compulsory for everyone, free tickets included. Book on the official site, galleriaborghese.cultura.gov.it, whose Buy button goes to the museum's official seller; by phone on +39 06 32810 (Monday to Friday, 9.30am to 6pm); or at the ticket office. You can buy five tickets at a time.
No changes, no refunds. Booked tickets can't be changed or refunded. If you bring a free or reduced ticket, bring the proof too, or it's cancelled and you pay full price, if there's space.
Resellers: the museum warns it isn't responsible for tickets sold at a higher price by third parties, and there's no official 'skip the line' ticket. If a site sells you one, it's a reseller.
How far ahead: the museum doesn't say when regular dates go on sale. Each slot holds 180 people and slots sell out, so book as soon as your dates are firm. Tickets for free days go on sale 10 days before.
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Time slots, and last-minute tickets
Slots: entry every hour on the hour, at 9am, 10am, 11am, noon, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm and 5pm, each for two hours, plus a last slot at 5.45pm that ends at 7pm. Entry is controlled at the start of each hour, so you queue briefly for your slot.
Sold out? The ticket office sells a limited number of last-minute tickets, from 20 minutes past each hour, for a 1 hour 30 minute visit (the last one at 5.50pm, for one hour), two per person. Waits can be long and entry isn't guaranteed. There are no last-minute tickets on free Sundays and other free days. You can also buy for the next available date at the desk.
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Bag rules and the cloakroom
Bags: for security, medium and large bags, shopping bags, backpacks and luggage can't go in. Only small pouches and handbags up to 21 x 15 cm are allowed.
Cloakroom: everything else goes in the cloakroom at the entrance. It only takes trolley bags up to airline cabin size, for the length of your visit and only if there's room; the museum doesn't guarantee space. Don't bring a big suitcase.
Without a ticket you can use the bookshop and the café (8.30am to 7pm), but not the cloakroom or the toilets.
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Free first Sundays in the park
On the first Sunday of the month and on 25 April, 2 June and 4 November, the state museums in the park are free: the Borghese Gallery (you still book and pay the €2 fee; tickets on sale 10 days ahead), Villa Giulia (the François Tomb is closed those days) and the GNAMC (booking compulsory). The next first Sunday is 6 December 2026.
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Putting a day together
Morning: walk up from Piazza del Popolo to the Pincio terrace (see our Spanish Steps guide), then through the park past the Giardino del Lago.
Midday: your Borghese Gallery slot, two hours. Book it first and build the day around it. It makes a good fourth day after our 3-day itinerary.
Afternoon: the GNAMC with the €10 same-day Borghese discount, or Villa Giulia for the Etruscans; both are on the park's north-west side towards Flaminio. With children, swap in the Bioparco, but remember its winter closing at 5pm.
Monday: the Borghese Gallery, Villa Giulia, the GNAMC and the Museo Canonica are all closed, so make Monday a park-and-zoo day or go elsewhere.
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Getting there
For the Borghese Gallery, the nearest bus stop is Pinciana/Museo Borghese: buses 910 and 92 from Termini, or buses 63, 83, 52 and 53 from near Barberini Metro (subway) station on Line A. The closest park entrance is on Via Pinciana. There are taxi stands on Via Pinciana and on Via Vittorio Veneto by the park.
For Villa Giulia and the GNAMC, take tram 3 or 19 to Viale delle Belle Arti, or walk from Flaminio (Line A). To walk in from the center, start at the Spanish Steps or Piazza del Popolo and climb to the Pincio.
To price the rest of your trip, see our Rome trip-cost guide, and for a base nearby, hotels near the Spanish Steps or where to stay in Rome.
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