Official Information
Official website: https://www.maxxi.art/
Online tickets: https://shop.articketing.com/en/monuments/archeoares-per-museo-maxxi-roma/tickets
Address: Via Guido Reni 4A, 00196 Roma RM, Italy
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Opening Hours
Museum: Tuesday–Sunday 11:00–19:00; Monday closed. Ticket office closes one hour before museum closing. Closed 1 May and 25 December; occasional extended or reduced hours on holidays are published on the official Hours and Tickets page.
MAXXI is Italy’s national museum dedicated to the art and architecture of the twenty-first century, housed in a striking building designed by Zaha Hadid in Rome’s Flaminio district. Rather than a traditional boxy museum, the complex is a fluid system of intersecting concrete volumes, bridges and ramps, wrapped around an open piazza that functions as an urban gathering space. Inside, long curving galleries, dramatic staircases and skylights encourage visitors to explore the building itself as a work of contemporary architecture.
The museum actually hosts two institutions under one roof, MAXXI Arte and MAXXI Architettura, whose collections include Italian and international artists, photographers and architects from the post-war period to the present. Instead of a static permanent display, works are rotated regularly and often shown in thematic exhibitions that mix media, from large-scale installations and video to painting and design objects. Architecture fans will find drawings, models and archival materials by major figures in Italian and global architecture, while contemporary art lovers encounter names ranging from Anish Kapoor and William Kentridge to Italian artists who are less known abroad but influential at home.
MAXXI functions as a cultural campus more than a simple display space. There is a full calendar of temporary exhibitions, talks, film screenings, performances and educational programs that activate the museum throughout the year. The large ground-floor bookshop, café and outdoor seating make it easy to linger before or after your visit, and the museum piazza is often used for installations, music and community events.
For travellers interested in a different side of Rome beyond ruins and Baroque churches, MAXXI showcases how Italy engages with global contemporary culture. Its location a short walk from the Tiber, the Auditorium Parco della Musica and the Olympic Village allows you to pair a museum visit with a stroll through a modern neighbourhood. Thoughtful signage, frequent bilingual texts and accessible routes make the experience manageable even for visitors who are not specialists in contemporary art.
Because the official site clearly lists current shows, opening times and ticket options, it is easy to time your visit to coincide with a particularly interesting exhibition or evening program.