Tickets for Museum of Illusions Rome

See the Eternal City on your own schedule with a **Hop-on Hop-off tour**.

IKONO Museum Roma offers an unparalleled experience in the Eternal City. This 60-minute, immersive journey takes you through a variety of sensory spaces that evoke a spectrum of diverse emotions. You'll be surrounded by vibrant colors, and mesmerising moving images. Digital and original works come together in a space that turns traditional photography into something truly unique.

Built between 1609 and 1613, this opulent structure - fountains, gardens, pink marble walls, frescoed ceilings - seems ideally suited to house one of the world's best collections of art. And that was exactly what it was built for. Architect Flaminio Ponzio designed it for the cardinal and art collector Scipione Borghese, who wanted a party villa on the edge of town where he could house his enormous collection of priceless art. In 1901, the collection (and the gallery, and the park that surrounds it) was acquired by the Italian government, and opened to the public. As a museum, Galleria Borghese punches well above its weight with an impressive hit rate of masterpieces. Sculptures by Bernini and Canova, paintings, by Caravaggio, Raphael and Titian... the list goes on.