Borghese Gallery - Bag Check Question

If it is a money belt under the clothing they will not check it. But anything else will be. Your paper money and credit card are safe because you are standing there watching them. Don't be paranoid. Carefully checking all bags is fairly common at most tourists sites. A few use x-ray.

Here's the link to information on visiting the Borghese Gallery. From it, you can get to more information of all kinds. Note that about halfway down the page you will find this:

Cloackroom -
It is compulsory to deposit every kind of bag, purse, camera, video camera, umbrella.

That sounds pretty specific to me.

Perhaps others will correct me, but it sounds like one more reason to wear a money belt with your passport, bank cards and big(ger) money in it and carry some extra cash in your pockets.

You might also want to take note of this:

It is forbidden
- to take photographs and videos
- to smoke within the Gallery
- to eat inside the Gallery

Last year, they gave visitors a small, opaque bag to take in if you did not want to leave your wallet, meds, etc. In the bag check (which is safe). The bag is sort of a gift-bag type that you would get from a department store, not bad and a nice souvenir.

Zoe and Lo are correct. It was two years ago and I forgot that we actually check all of our bags at a counter. I had a small camera in a pocket that I didn't leave but it was not obvious either. And obviously I never took it out. The security procedures for all these areas kind of blend together. We wear money belts so the only things we had on us was a credit card in one shirt pocket and a money clip with Euro in the other pocket. And, of course, they didn't ask for that.

see, that's why English is so tricky...... Frank went with a different definition for "check" initially......

I've seen photos from the last year or two showing people taking photos in the gallery, including tour groups. That has led me to believe that they now allow cameras in. Can anyone corroborate from first-hand knowledge?

Cameras are now permitted. It has been that way for at least a year.

Boo hiss. Not good for calm examination of art. And anybody taking a selfie should have their legs cut off at the knee.

Nigel is correct: non-flash photography is now allowed in all Italian NATIONAL museums. Private museums may have different rules, however.

In addition to wearing a money belt under your clothes for deep storage, you can still take your day-use wallet out of the purse and stuff it in your pocket (or bra) during the museum visit.