Image: Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano, Naples
Gallerie d'Italia will open its museums and partner sites with free admission on Sunday, August 2, 2026, as part of Italy’s ‘Domenicalmuseo’ initiative. The offer covers the Gallerie d'Italia locations in Milan, Naples, Turin and Vicenza, together with the Galleria di Palazzo degli Alberti in Prato and the Casa Museo Ivan Bruschi in Arezzo.
The announcement was made through the Gallerie d'Italia network, which is part of Intesa Sanpaolo’s museum and cultural program. The group presents Gallerie d'Italia as a network of museums in four cities, each housed in a historic building and offering exhibitions, collections and educational programming. Its website describes the project as bringing together “capolavori d’arte” and “palazzi storici di pregio,” and it promotes both in-person and online access to its collections and initiatives.
In Naples, Gallerie d'Italia is located on Via Toledo 177. The museum’s current program listed on the institution’s website includes ‘OBEY: Power to the peaceful’, on view from May 6 to September 6, 2026. The Naples venue is one of the sites included in the August 2 free-admission day, alongside the group’s other museum locations.
The network’s other active venues are in Milan, on Piazza Scala; Turin, on Piazza San Carlo; and Vicenza, on Contra’ S. Corona. On the website, the institution also identifies ongoing exhibitions in these cities, including ‘Bellezza e Bruttezza. Ideale, reale, caricaturale nel Rinascimento’ and ‘ARNALDO POMODORO. UNA VITA.’ in Milan, ‘Nick Brandt. The Day May Break. La luce alla fine del giorno’ and ‘Diana Markosian. Replaced’ in Turin, and ‘GIORGIA LUPI. L'umanesimo dei dati’ in Vicenza, which is listed with dates ending on August 2, 2026.
The free-access day extends beyond the Gallerie d'Italia network to two additional institutions in the Intesa Sanpaolo orbit: the Galleria di Palazzo degli Alberti in Prato and the Casa Museo Ivan Bruschi in Arezzo. The August 2 opening applies to all six sites named in the announcement, with no separate restrictions or venue-specific conditions stated in the source material.
The post giving notice of the free entry specifies that the museums will be open for the entire day, from 12:00 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. on August 2. It directs visitors to the Gallerie d'Italia website for information on current exhibitions. The announcement is the latest in the institution’s regular communications about access and programming across its museum network.
