Roman Theatre and Archaeological Museum, Verona: Hours, Tickets and What to See

Opening hours and closing days

The theatre and museum are open from Tuesday to Sunday, 10:00 to 18:00, with last entry at 17:30. They close every Monday and on 25 December and 1 January (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026a). The museum's own home page, archived on 17 October 2026, gives the same hours (Comune di Verona, 2026).

There is one extra opening this winter: the site opens on Monday 7 December 2026 (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026a). On the first Sunday of the month from November to March the entry price drops to 1 EUR; the next dates are 6 December 2026, 3 January 2027, 7 February 2027 and 7 March 2027 (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026b).

In summer the theatre is a working stage. From 31 March 2026 the structures for the summer performances were put up, with changes to the visitor route, and the site hosts the Estate Teatrale Veronese festival and other events (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026a).

The museum has no extended evening hours, so plan it for a morning or early afternoon.

Tickets: Verona Card, first Sundays and online booking

The theatre and the museum are sold as the Archaeological Museum at the Roman Theatre. There are three ways to pay.

The Verona Card includes the Archaeological Museum at the Roman Theatre among its free entries, with one admission during the card's 24 or 48 hours. From 1 September 2026 the card costs 33 EUR for 24 hours or 38 EUR for 48 hours, city buses included (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026c). It pays off if you combine the theatre with the Arena, Castelvecchio and other civic museums on the same day.

On the first Sunday of the month from November to March the civic museums charge 1 EUR, and the Archaeological Museum is one of the three where the 1 EUR ticket can also be bought online (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026b).

Otherwise, buy a single ticket at the museum's ticket office or online. The civic museums state that verona.coopculture.it is the only official site for buying their tickets online, and that entry is not guaranteed with tickets bought through unofficial channels (Comune di Verona, 2026). Visit Verona could not confirm the current single-ticket price from an official source, so check it on that site before you go. Free guided tours of the permanent collections can be booked, and are included in the entry ticket (Comune di Verona, 2026).

What you see in the theatre

The complex rose in terraces from the river bank to the top of the hill, about 150 metres wide and 107 metres deep, with a difference in height of about 60 metres. A temple crowned the hill; its remains were found in 1851 while the foundations of Castel San Pietro were being dug (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026d).

Of the stage building, the load-bearing walls of tuff blocks survive. Three doors opened on to the stage for the actors, and in the pit beneath the stage you can see the arrangements for raising and lowering the curtain. The semicircular orchestra lies in front of the stage. The steps of the auditorium, resting on the hillside in the centre and on radial walls at the sides, were largely rebuilt at the start of the twentieth century. Above the cavea ran a gallery of small arches, now partly reconstructed on a terrace (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026d).

From at least the tenth century houses and churches were built over the ruins and eventually covered the auditorium and stage entirely (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026d). Andrea Monga, a Veronese merchant, bought and excavated the area from 1834, and the Comune di Verona acquired the whole complex in 1904 and continued the excavation and restoration (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026a).

The Archaeological Museum and the Great Terrace

The museum is housed in a fifteenth-century convent of the Gesuati, a congregation founded by Giovanni Colombini of Siena in 1367. The monks cared for the sick and made medicines, perfumes and liqueurs, work that needed a good water supply, which the San Pietro hill provided (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026a).

The collections cover Roman Verona: sculptures, mosaics, bronzes and glass (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026a). The Great Terrace, with its view over the city and the river, displays objects from donated collections and Roman material found in Verona and its province, including monuments, sacred and funerary inscriptions, mosaics, sculptures and columns from the Arena (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026a).

The museum's programme this winter includes Pieghe di pietra, a show of work by Raffaello Galiotto running until 6 January, and Merendocchio, activities on the theme of Pinocchio for children aged 6 to 11 from October to January (Comune di Verona, 2026). For visitors with communication needs the museum has produced a printed guide to the Roman Theatre using augmentative and alternative communication symbols, with a simplified audio guide (Comune di Verona, 2026).

Allow about an hour and a half for the theatre and the museum together.

Getting there from the centre

The entrance is at Regaste Redentore 2, on the left bank of the Adige in the area known as Veronetta (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026a). From Piazza delle Erbe it is about 930 metres and 12 minutes on foot, and from Piazza Bra about 1.6 km and 21 minutes (FOSSGIS, 2026). The quickest walk from the old town crosses the river at Ponte Pietra, the Roman bridge that the hill's fort once defended (Giardino Giusti, 2026).

By bus, ATV urban line 73 runs from Porta Nuova station via Piazza Cittadella and San Fermo to Piazza Isolo, the nearest stop on the left bank (ATV, 2026a). A 90-minute urban ticket costs 1.50 EUR, or 2.00 EUR if bought from the driver (ATV, 2026b); see our ATV bus tickets page.

The theatre makes a natural pair with the Giardino Giusti, which is in the same district, and with Castel San Pietro on the hill above. For a base close to both, see our guide to where to stay in Verona, which compares Veronetta with the other districts.

Accessibility, dogs and practical tips

The Archaeological Museum is not accessible to visitors with reduced mobility. The cavea of the Roman Theatre can be visited through an entrance with a ramp (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026a).

Dogs are admitted only if small and carried in a suitable bag. Guide dogs, assistance dogs and alert dogs are always admitted. Dogs are not allowed during guided tours, set-ups and certain temporary exhibitions, among other cases, and the full pet policy is attached to the tourist office page (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026a).

The site is on a hillside, so wear shoes for steps and uneven stone, and bring water in summer. The contact for the museum is [email protected] or +39 045 8000360 (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026a).

If you are building a day around the civic museums, check the closing days first: the Roman Theatre, like the Arena, closes on Mondays (Destination Verona & Garda Foundation, 2026a, 2026e). On a Monday, the Lamberti Tower and the Giardino Giusti are open. For the Arena's own hours and tickets, see the Arena page.