Activities at the Carnival Museum

About the event

The Museo del Carnevale in Viareggio offers activities and creative workshops for getting to know the world of the Viareggio Carnival.

On Saturday 31 October at 16:00 there is a papier-mâché workshop with a Halloween theme. The minimum age is 5 and the cost is 5 euros. Booking is required.

The October programme also includes a free show, "TRIP", as part of the festival "I Musei del Sorriso" of the Sistema Museale della provincia di Lucca, a creative workshop called "Dentro il quadro" on the FAMu day, and a guided visit to the Museo del Carnevale and Hangar 16/Espace Gilbert. A papier-mâché workshop is also held on 24 October.

All activities are by booking only. Payment is made at the Museo del Carnevale di Viareggio 15 minutes before the activity starts.

Programme

Expected weather

Forecast for Saturday, 31 October 2026 in Viareggio: partly cloudy, 19° by day and 10° at night, 0% chance of rain.

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Getting to Viareggio

By car, leave the A12 at the Viareggio-Camaiore exit; the Viareggio–Lucca link road joins the A11 Florence motorway. Viareggio station is on the Genoa–Pisa line and is the terminus of the line to Lucca and Florence, with regional trains towards Pisa, La Spezia, Lucca and Florence. From Pisa airport, the PisaMover shuttle runs to Pisa Centrale in about 5 minutes, where you change to a train for Viareggio.

Parking: On-street parking in Viareggio is mostly paid blue-line parking, run for the Comune by MoVer (Mobilità Versilia). Rates vary by zone; pay at the meters or with the MoVer app. The signs on site always apply.

About Viareggio

Viareggio is the largest town on the Versilia coast, a resort of about 60,000 people with an entirely sandy shoreline on the Ligurian Sea.

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