A full-price ticket to the Gallerie dell'Accademia costs 15 EUR in 2026. EU citizens aged 18 to 25 pay 2 EUR, under 18s enter free, and the museum opens Tuesday to Sunday from 9am to 7pm, with ticket sales ending at 6pm and no Monday opening at all (Gallerie dell'Accademia, 2026). The museum is Italy's state collection of Venetian and Veneto painting, housed in the former church of the Carita, its convent and the scuola of the same name, on the Dorsoduro bank of the Grand Canal beside the Accademia bridge.
The answer most visitors want before buying is whether a city pass covers it. It does not. The Venice Museum Pass is the cumulative ticket of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, and the Accademia is a state museum under the Ministry of Culture, so it appears nowhere on the pass's list of twelve sites (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026). The reduction that does apply here is the Dorsoduro Museum Mile, the circuit the Accademia shares with the Palazzo Cini Gallery, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Palazzo Grassi with Punta della Dogana.
The displayed route runs from fourteenth-century panels to the early nineteenth century, beginning on the first floor and ending on the ground floor. Several first-floor halls are shut for restoration work, which shortens the visit from what older guidance suggests.
How much are Gallerie dell'Accademia tickets in 2026?
Full price is 15 EUR. EU citizens aged 18 to 25 pay 2 EUR, and anyone under 18 enters free whatever their nationality (Gallerie dell'Accademia, 2026). Two further individual rates are published. The Arteritivo ticket is 10 EUR for visitors aged 26 to 35 and is valid only on Fridays between 5.15pm and 7pm, with last entry no later than 6pm. The Insieme rate is 12 EUR per person for groups of between 10 and 25 adults over 26, bookable only by telephone on 800150666, or on +390415243354 from outside Italy, with the call centre open daily from 9am to 6pm and payment by credit card or bank transfer alone.
An audio guide costs 6 EUR, in Italian, English, French, German, Japanese and Spanish, and the children's version for ages 6 and up costs the same 6 EUR in Italian, English and French. The video guide in Italian Sign Language is free (Gallerie dell'Accademia, 2026).
TicketOne is the only authorised online reseller, so a ticket bought anywhere else online is a resale. The museum ticket office takes cash, Pagobancomat, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, the Carta della cultura giovani and the Carta del merito. The official advice is that online purchase gives priority entry if a queue forms on a busy day, which makes it a queue-skipping convenience rather than a compulsory time slot.
Opening hours, last admission and the Monday closure
The Gallerie dell'Accademia opens Tuesday to Sunday from 9am to 7pm. Ticket sales end at 6pm, and staff begin directing visitors towards the exit half an hour before closing, so 6pm is the realistic last moment to buy and 6.30pm the point at which the rooms start emptying (Gallerie dell'Accademia, 2026).
There is no Monday opening, long or short. The published week runs Tuesday to Sunday on both the English and Italian versions of the tariff page, with no reduced Monday morning of the kind some Venetian museums keep. A Monday arrival in Venice therefore has to put the Accademia on another day, which is worth knowing when the rest of the Dorsoduro circuit is being planned around it.
Hours change for public holidays and for occasional closures, and the museum publishes a day-by-day opening calendar for exactly that reason. The calendar loads as an interactive widget rather than a printed list, so it has to be checked on the site itself close to the date of a visit.
Arriving at opening time is the practical move. Ticket sales stopping a full hour before the doors close means the late afternoon is the one part of the day when a visitor can be turned away with the museum still open, and the Friday Arteritivo slot between 5.15pm and 7pm is the only published exception built around that last hour.
Who gets in free, and the 2026 free admission days
Under 18s are always free. So are holders of the museum Membership Card and ICOM members and cardholders, both of whom collect a complimentary ticket at the ticket office and skip the queue, including on free Sundays, with no online booking (Gallerie dell'Accademia, 2026).
The museum takes part in the Ministry of Culture's Domenica al Museo scheme, which opens it free to everyone on the first Sunday of every month. Seven further free days are published for 2026: Epiphany on 6 January, International Women's Day on 8 March, Easter on 5 April, Liberation Day on 25 April, Republic Day on 2 June, All Saints' Day on 1 November and National Unity Day on 4 November. The 8 March opening is free entry reserved for female visitors; the other six are open to all.
Free days work differently from paid ones. No booking is taken and entry is first come, first served, which means a queue in place of a time slot. Priority skip-the-line access on those days goes to three groups only: Membership Card holders, ICOM cardholders, and anyone carrying a discounted Dorsoduro Museum Mile ticket. A free first Sunday is the cheapest way into the building and the slowest, so it suits a visitor with a loose morning and suits nobody on a tight schedule.
Is the Gallerie dell'Accademia on the Venice Museum Pass?
No. The Museum Pass is the cumulative ticket for the civic museums of the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, priced at 50 EUR standard and 25 EUR reduced, valid six months for one admission to each museum with no reservation needed. Its published list covers the Doge's Palace, the combined Correr itinerary, Ca' Rezzonico, Palazzo Mocenigo, Carlo Goldoni's House, Ca' Pesaro, MUVEC, the Murano Glass Museum, the Burano Lace Museum, the Natural History Museum, the Fortuny Museum and the Torcello Museum (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026). The Accademia is a state museum, so it is absent from that list, and no civic combined ticket reaches it either.
The reduction that does apply is the Dorsoduro Museum Mile, the circuit linking the Accademia, the Palazzo Cini Gallery, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Palazzo Grassi with Punta della Dogana. A paid ticket or a Membership Card from any one of them earns a reduced ticket at the others for seven days from the date of purchase. At the Accademia that reduced ticket is listed at 12 EUR on the tariff page, and only at the museum ticket office, never online. The museum's own Museum Mile page states 17 EUR instead, which is above the 15 EUR full price, so the 12 EUR figure is the one to expect. Going the other way, the Mile rate is 14 EUR at the Peggy Guggenheim, 12 EUR at Punta della Dogana and 7 EUR at Palazzo Cini.
How long the visit takes and the route through the rooms
The museum's own guided itineraries each run 1 hour 15 minutes, which is a fair measure of what the displayed collection now holds (Gallerie dell'Accademia, 2026). Ninety minutes to two hours is comfortable for an unhurried visit of the open rooms.
The route is chronological and split across two floors. It begins on the first floor with work from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century and finishes on the ground floor with the seventeenth to the nineteenth. First-floor halls are numbered in Roman numerals and ground-floor halls in Arabic, which is the single most useful thing to know when following the printed map. Hall I opens with Paolo Veneziano, Lorenzo Veneziano and Jacobello del Fiore; Halls II to VI carry Giovanni Bellini, Carpaccio and Cima da Conegliano, with Piero della Francesca and Mantegna in Hall IV; Hall VIII holds Giorgione, Titian and Sebastiano del Piombo; Hall X is Veronese. Downstairs runs through Tiepolo, Longhi, Piazzetta, Canaletto, Rosalba Carriera, Guardi and Canova.
Several rooms are shut. Halls XVIII to XXI and Hall XXIII are closed for restoration work, Hall XXII is also listed as closed, and Hall XVII is given over to temporary exhibitions. A lift serves the first floor, wheelchairs and portable stools are free, and free lockers take bags, with a 1 EUR coin as the cloakroom deposit. Backpacks and bulky bags cannot be carried into the rooms, and the largest locker measures 45 by 35 by 65 cm.
What to see, and why the Vitruvian Man is not on the wall
The museum publishes its own masterpieces route, and it is a shorter and more honest list than the canon usually quoted. Six works carry the official masterpiece label: Giorgione's The Tempest, Veronese's Feast in the House of Levi, the Hermit Saints Triptych by Jheronymus Bosch, Tintoretto's Saint Mark Freeing the Slave, Canova's Madame Letizia Bonaparte and Paolo Veneziano's Polyptych of the Coronation of the Virgin (Gallerie dell'Accademia, 2026). The museum frames the whole as eight hundred years of Venetian art in one journey.
Leonardo's Vitruvian Man belongs to the collection and is one of the works the museum leads with online, which is why so many visitors arrive expecting to stand in front of it. It is not on display. The official catalogue lists the Study of the Proportions of the Body known as the Vitruvian Man as non esposta, along with Leonardo's other sheets, Raphael's Alfiere and the rest of the drawings. The reason given is conservation: drawings have to be kept in a light-protected environment under constant microclimate control, so the prints and drawings are not on permanent display at all (Gallerie dell'Accademia, 2026). The Department of Prints and Drawings is also temporarily closed for consultation because of restoration work.
A visitor who wants a specific painting should check the museum's works-not-on-display list before buying, because loans and conservation move pieces off the route without notice.
Getting to the Accademia and what is within ten minutes
The address is Campo della Carita, Dorsoduro 1050, and the water bus stop is Accademia, served by lines 1, 2 and the night line N (Gallerie dell'Accademia, 2026). The stop sits a few steps from the entrance, which the museum recommends in rain or with a pushchair. The barrier-free entrance is on the right-hand side, in Calle della Carita.
Official walking times from the four usual starting points are 15 minutes and 1 km from St Mark's Square, 20 minutes and 1.5 km from Piazzale Roma, 25 minutes and 1.8 km from Santa Lucia station, and 5 minutes and 350 m from the Zattere along Rio Tera Foscarini past the Gesuati church. By water, lines 1 and 2 towards Lido serve the stop from Piazzale Roma and the station, and the same lines towards Piazzale Roma serve it from St Mark's.
A single Actv fare is the 75-minute Rete Unica ticket at 9.50 EUR, which is the figure to budget for one hop rather than any reseller's bundled price. A Venezia Daily Pass costs 25 EUR, and visitors aged 6 to 29 can buy the 72-hour Rolling Venice ticket at 27 EUR once they hold the 6 EUR Rolling Venice Card (Actv, 2026).
Within ten minutes on foot are the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the Palazzo Cini Gallery and Santa Maria della Salute, with Punta della Dogana at the point beyond it, which is what makes the Museum Mile reduction worth collecting on the way in.
