- 1. Free Museums 2025: Calendar of Free Days and Sundays
- 2. Calendar and Dates for Free Museum Sundays 2025
- 3. Free Museums
- 4. Free Museums on the First Sunday of the Month
- 5. Vatican Museums Free
- 6. Free Museums in Italy: Which Ones and Where?
- 7. Free Museums in Rome
- 8. Free Museums in Milan
- 9. Free Museums in Turin
- 10. Free Museums in Naples
- 11. Free Museums in Florence
- 12. Free Museums in Padua
Free Museums 2025: Calendar of Free Days and Sundays
Calendar and Dates for Free Museum Sundays 2025
Free museums in 2025, when and how to visit them in Italy?
What are the dates for the free Sundays in 2025? Italy possesses an immense artistic heritage. Art can be found almost everywhere, even in unexpected places.
This allows us to assert that we live in a vast open-air museum. We carry with us an artistic and cultural luggage that spans centuries of history; this precious heritage is housed in museums, palaces, and art sites.
Did you know that there are also art places at no cost? Besides the major and well-known museums of Italy, there are many interesting free museums in Italian cities that are worth visiting this year.
In this article, we have created a guide to the free museums of the main cities and to the ministerial initiative of Sunday at the Museum.
- Sunday, January 5
- Sunday, February 2
- Sunday, March 2
- Sunday, April 6
- Sunday, May 4
- Sunday, June 1
- Sunday, July 6
- Sunday, August 3
- Sunday, September 7
- Sunday, October 5
- Sunday, November 2
- Sunday, December 7
Free Museums
Throughout Italy, there are many exceptionally free museums and art spaces. They include smaller museums, contemporary art spaces, thematic museums, and palaces. Let's discover together the free museums of Italian cities and the reasons to visit them without spending a dime.
In addition to the free museums available year-round, there are special openings and the Culture Ministry's initiative, Sunday at the Museum, which allows us to visit museums, archaeological sites, and state monuments for free.
Among the free museums that are absolutely worth seeing is the Hangar Bicocca in Milan, a contemporary art museum that is always free where you will find temporary and permanent exhibitions.
In Rome, there are numerous free museums, including the Napoleon Museum housed within Palazzo Primoli. You can also visit the studio house of Luigi Pirandello and the Museum of Liberation for free.
Free Museums on the First Sunday of the Month
Since 2014, there has been an interesting initiative by the Mibact that will take you to the museum for free. The initiative is called I go to the Museum and will allow you to visit more than 480 sites including museums, monuments, archaeological sites, palaces, and monumental gardens.
Alongside the free admission days independently decided by each museum, the ministerial calendar indeed provides free entry Sundays.
On the official website of Sunday at the Museum, you can find a list of all the museums, archaeological areas, and state parks open free of charge, categorized by region and city.
Vatican Museums Free
Did you know that you can visit the Vatican Museums for free? Every last Sunday of the month, the museum is exceptionally open to the public at no cost.
The opening hours are from 9 AM to 2 PM, with the last entry allowed until 12:30 PM; if the last day of the month coincides with a holiday, admission will be charged.
It is usually crowded, but it will be worth it to see Raphael's rooms, the spiral staircase by Giuseppe Momo, the Pinacoteca, the Gallery of Maps, and the Sistine Chapel.
Free Museums in Italy: Which Ones and Where?
- Museum|Address|Free
- Museum Madre|Via Luigi Settembrini 79, Naples|Every first Sunday of the month
- Hangar Bicocca|Via Chiese 2, Milan|Always
- Colosseum|Piazzale del Colosseo, Rome|Every first Sunday of the month
- Royal Palace of Caserta|Viale Douhet 2, Caserta|Every first Sunday of the month
- Uffizi Gallery|Piazzale degli Uffizi 6, Florence|Every first Sunday of the month
- Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art|Via Magenta 31, Turin|Every first Tuesday of the month
- Galleries of Italy|Piazza della Scala 6, Milan|Every first Sunday of the month
- Museum of Fruit|Via Pietro Giuria 15, Turin|Every Wednesday
- Museum Henrik Christian Andersen|Via Pasquale Stanislao Mancini 20, Rome|Always
- Historical Museum of Liberation|Via Tasso 145, Rome|Always
Free Museums in Rome
In Rome, there are many museums that you can visit for free. Some are permanently free, while others are only free on certain days or periods of the year. Among those that are free all year round, you can visit:
- National Gallery of San Luca, always free
- Historical Museum of Liberation, always free
- Casal de' Pazzi Museum, always free
- Boncompagni Ludovisi Museum, always free
- Mario Praz Museum, always free
- Napoleon Museum, always free
- House Museum of Pirandello, always free
- Italian Mint Museum, always free
- Central Institute for Graphics, always free
Free Museums in Milan
Here we have selected the free museums you can visit in Milan.
- Galleries of Italy, the Intesa San Paolo museum hub, always free
- Boschi di Stefano House-Museum, always free
- Hangar Bicocca, always free
- Museum of the Risorgimento, free admission every day from 2 PM to 5 PM (closed Monday)
- Museums of Sforza Castle and Michelangelo's Pietà Rondanini, free entry every Tuesday from 2 PM; from Wednesday to Sunday from 4 PM to 5 PM.
- Modern Art Gallery, free every day one hour before closing.
- Civic Aquarium of Milan, free admission every Tuesday from 2 PM; from Wednesday to Sunday from 4:30 PM to 5 PM.
Free Museums in Turin
- Museum of Fruit, free every Wednesday
- Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery, free every first Tuesday of the month
- Museum of Oriental Art, free every first Tuesday of the month
- Palazzo Madama, free every first Wednesday of the month
Free Museums in Naples
- PAN, free admission
- Museum Madre, free every first Sunday of the month
- Certosa and Museum of San Martino, free every first Sunday of the month
- Palazzo Zevalos, free every first Sunday of the month
- Archaeological Museum of Naples, free the first Sunday of the month
- Complex of Girolamini, free the first Sunday of the month
- Royal Palace of Caserta (in the vicinity) free every first Sunday of the month
Free Museums in Florence
- Uffizi Gallery, first Sunday of the month
- National Museum of Bargello, first Sunday of the month
- Accademia Gallery, first Sunday of the month
- Museum of the Medici Chapels, first Sunday of the month
- Palazzo Pitti, first Sunday of the month
- Boboli Garden, first Sunday of the month for non-residents
- Museum of Palazzo Davanzati, first Sunday of the month
Free Museums in Padua
In addition to the appointments for free museums on the first Sunday of the month, during Christmas, the Municipality of Padua offers free entry to Palazzo della Ragione, the Civic Museums at Eremitani, and Palazzo Zuckermann for residents of Padua and the Province as well as for university students.