Rome museums including Borghese, Saint Angelo, and Palazzo Barberini are now closed Sundays. The colosseum, forum and palatine hill remain open except for some last minute closures for the colosseum underground tour due to lack of personnel.
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Seattle, WA, USA
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Lois, what's your source for this? All their websites show that they are open on Sunday.
Posted by
Austin, TX, USA
492 posts
Are you sure? The Borghese Gallery is taking online reservations for Sundays in July.
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Q.B.
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www.walksofitaly.com
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Pa and Italy
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The Italian official sites are saying the Borghese is having "staffing issues" and won't be open on Sundays. Last time I checked, a few days ago, they have Sundays in July listed as being available but when you clicked on them they were not available to book. http://www.beniculturali.it/mibac/export/MiBAC/sito-MiBAC/Contenuti/MibacUnif/Comunicati/visualizza_asset.html_1880253151.html Donna
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Seattle, WA, USA
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That link that Donna posted says this is still only hypothetical and they're trying to avoid it. Here's the Italian: "Stiamo facendo il possibile e adottando misure per garantire il servizio al pubblico. Eventualmente quei musei che non potranno garantire l'orario continuato di apertura, adotteranno l'apertura ad orario o la chiusura parziale delle sale. Ci scusiamo con i visitatori del disagio arrecato". Here's my translation: "We are doing what is possible and adopting measures to guarantee service to the public. Eventually, those museums that will not be able to guarantee continuous hours of being open, will adopt partial opening or closing schedule of the rooms. We apologize to visitors for any inconvenience that this causes." It is dated June 1.
Posted by
Pleasanton, California
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We have a paid for reservation at the Borghese for Sunday July 1st. Are you saying that it might be closed? What about people with reservations already?
Posted by
Northamptonshire, England
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Melanie, how did you pay? Whenever we go we call up and pay the reservation when we pick up the tickets. I've never paid in advance.
Posted by
Pleasanton, California
93 posts
Nigel, We booked it on http://www.galleriaborghese.it/borghese/en/edefault.htm and it is paid for. I have the transaction i.d., the payment i.d. Looks like we are going to be out of luck. I'll have to call them to see about getting our money back. Sunday was the only day we were going to get to go there. :(
Posted by
Sydney
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Borghese will not be open on Sunday as they are having lack of manpower on Sundays.
Posted by
Seattle, WA, USA
7737 posts
Here's Ron in Rome's take on it: Possible closures in museums in Rome.