The Museum Pass sold by the Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia costs 50 EUR full and 25 EUR reduced, covers 12 civic museums including the Doge's Palace, is valid for six months and needs no reservation (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026a). If the Doge's Palace is the only civic museum on your list, the St Mark's Square Museums ticket at 35 EUR is the cheaper buy.
The crossover is easy to work out. The St Mark's Square ticket already bundles four venues for 35 EUR, and most other civic museums cost 15 EUR each. One more museum after the square brings you to 50 EUR, which is level with the pass, and a second takes you to 65 EUR, at which point the pass saves 15 EUR. The same ratio holds at reduced rates, where the pass is 25 EUR and the single museums are 7.50 EUR.
What the civic pass does not touch matters just as much. The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a state museum at 20 EUR and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a private foundation at 17 EUR, so 37 EUR of Dorsoduro sits outside every Musei Civici ticket (Gallerie dell'Accademia, 2026; Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026). The Clock Tower is carved out of the pass as well. The church circuits are a separate purchase again, and the Frari, the church most visitors ask about, has left them.
How much is the Venice Museum Pass and what does it cover?
The Museum Pass is the cumulative ticket for the civic museums of Venice. It costs 50 EUR full and 25 EUR reduced, is valid for six months, allows one admission to each museum and carries no reservation requirement (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026a).
Twelve museums are inside it. The St Mark's Square group is the anchor: the Doge's Palace, the Museo Correr, the National Archaeological Museum of Venice and the Monumental Rooms of the Marciana National Library. Away from the square the pass covers Ca' Rezzonico, the Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo, Carlo Goldoni's House, Ca' Pesaro, the Fortuny Museum, the Murano Glass Museum, the Burano Lace Museum and the Torcello Museum (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026a).
One civic museum is carved out. The Clock Tower on the north side of Piazza San Marco is sold separately at 15 EUR full and 11 EUR reduced, and visits run only on prior booking with a specialised guide. Holders of the Museum Pass or of the St Mark's Square Museums ticket qualify for the reduced 11 EUR, and a Clock Tower ticket in turn gives free admission to the Correr, the Archaeological Museum and the Marciana rooms (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026e). That last clause is worth remembering if the tower is the thing you actually want to climb.
Doge's Palace tickets: what the St Mark's Square Museums ticket includes
There is no standalone Doge's Palace ticket. Admission runs through the St Mark's Square Museums ticket, a single title valid for the Doge's Palace, the Museo Correr, the National Archaeological Museum of Venice and the Monumental Rooms of the Marciana National Library, with the MUVE APP audioguide included (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026a; Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026b).
It costs 35 EUR full and 15 EUR reduced. Buying online at least 30 days before the visit date brings the full price down to 30 EUR, and the reduced price stays at 15 EUR (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026a). The same 35 EUR title is what the Correr ticket desk sells, so entering at the Correr rather than the palace changes nothing about the price (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026c).
The Doge's Palace opens 09:00 to 19:00 from 1 April to 31 October, with last admission at 18:00, and 09:00 to 18:00 from 1 November to 31 March, with last admission at 17:00 (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026b). The Correr and the two state institutions on the same ticket run 10:00 to 18:00 in summer and 10:00 to 17:00 in winter, closing an hour earlier for admissions (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026c). Two guided routes, the Secret Itineraries and the Doge's Hidden Treasures, are priced separately at 40 EUR and 20 EUR (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026b).
The 20 EUR themed tickets for Ca' Rezzonico, Ca' Pesaro and the islands
Between the single museums and the full pass sit three themed tickets, each 20 EUR full and 10 EUR reduced, each valid three months with one admission per museum (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026a).
The Museums of 18th Century Venice covers Ca' Rezzonico, the Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo and Carlo Goldoni's House. The Museums of Modern and Contemporary Art covers Ca' Pesaro, the Fortuny Museum and MUVEC, the contemporary space in Mestre. The Island Museums ticket covers the Murano Glass Museum, the Burano Lace Museum and the Torcello Museum.
The arithmetic behind them is simple. Ca' Rezzonico on its own is 15 EUR full and 7.50 EUR reduced, and so are Ca' Pesaro and the Murano Glass Museum (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026d; 2026f; 2026g). Each themed ticket therefore costs 5 EUR more than one of its own museums bought alone, which makes the set worth taking the moment a second museum in the group is even possible.
Opening days differ and catch people out. Ca' Rezzonico closes on Tuesday, Ca' Pesaro closes on Monday, and both run 10:00 to 18:00 from 1 April to 31 October and 10:00 to 17:00 from 1 November to 31 March, with last admission an hour before closing (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026d; 2026f). School groups at the Murano Glass Museum pay 4 EUR per person for entry between 1 September and 15 March (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026g).
Is the Chorus Pass or the Venezia Unica city pass worth it?
Two other passes come up constantly. The Chorus association sells a single pass for the churches of the Patriarchate of Venice, and Venezia Unica sells a modular city pass that you assemble from transport, museums and monuments. Both official sites, chorusvenezia.org and veneziaunica.it, returned an automated challenge page every time they were requested on 28 September 2026, so no price for either is published here. Check them directly before you buy, and treat third-party figures with suspicion, because both products change tiers and contents from season to season.
One thing about the church circuits can be stated with a source, and it is the thing most likely to cost you money. The Basilica dei Frari, home to the Titian Assumption and the church most visitors want to see, has left the external circuits. Its official ticket page states that the basilica does not join external tourist circuits or city passes, naming Venezia Unica, the Chorus Pass and the Venice Pass (Basilica dei Frari, 2026).
The Frari now sells its own admission at 8 EUR full, 5 EUR for over 65s and 3 EUR for students aged 12 to 29, with online prices through its booking partner of 9.50 EUR, 6.00 EUR and 3.50 EUR. Entry is free for children up to 11, for disabled visitors and a companion, for licensed guides, for teachers accompanying school groups of at least 15 students (two per group at most), and for residents of the Comune di Venezia (Basilica dei Frari, 2026).
Accademia and Guggenheim: the museums no civic pass covers
The two art museums people pair with the civic ones both sit outside every Musei Civici ticket, and both are in Dorsoduro within a short walk of each other.
The Gallerie dell'Accademia is a state museum. Full admission is 20 EUR, EU citizens aged 18 to 25 pay 2 EUR, and under 18s enter free. The published timetable runs Tuesday to Sunday, 09:00 to 19:00, with ticket sales ending at 18:00. Admission is free on the first Sunday of every month and on 6 January, 8 March, 5 April, 25 April, 2 June, 1 November and 4 November 2026. Three further rates exist: 15 EUR for the Arteritivo slot for 26 to 35 year olds on Friday between 17:15 and 19:00, 17 EUR for groups of 10 to 25 adults over 26, and 17 EUR for Dorsoduro Museum Mile holders (Gallerie dell'Accademia, 2026).
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a private foundation. Admission is 17 EUR for adults, 14 EUR for over 70s, 9 EUR for students under 26 with a valid student card, and free for children under 10 and for members. It opens daily 10:00 to 18:00, closes on Tuesdays and on 25 December, and the ticket office shuts at 17:00, which is also the last entrance (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026).
Budget 37 EUR for the pair at full price, on top of whatever civic ticket you hold.
Worked examples: a two-day and a four-day visit
Two days, San Marco plus one palace. The St Mark's Square Museums ticket is 35 EUR and covers the Doge's Palace, the Correr, the Archaeological Museum and the Marciana rooms. Add Ca' Rezzonico at 15 EUR and the total is 50 EUR, exactly level with the Museum Pass. Book the square ticket online 30 days ahead at 30 EUR and the singles come to 45 EUR, which beats the pass by 5 EUR. On a two-day visit the pass rarely wins.
Add a third civic museum and the picture flips. The square plus Ca' Rezzonico plus Ca' Pesaro is 65 EUR at the desk, or 60 EUR with the advance square price, against 50 EUR for the pass. The pass saves 15 EUR, or 10 EUR if you were going to book early anyway.
Four days, a fuller run. The square group, Ca' Rezzonico, Ca' Pesaro and the Murano Glass Museum come to 80 EUR as singles, or 75 EUR with the advance square price. The Museum Pass covers all four for 50 EUR, a saving of 30 EUR, and leaves the Burano Lace Museum, the Torcello Museum, Palazzo Mocenigo, Casa Goldoni and the Fortuny inside the same 50 EUR.
At reduced rates the crossover sits in the same place. The square ticket is 15 EUR and each single museum is 7.50 EUR, so two museums cost 22.50 EUR against a 25 EUR pass, and three cost 30 EUR against 25 EUR (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026a).
Reduced entry, free entry and whether you need a timed slot
The civic reduced rate applies to children aged 6 to 14, students aged 15 to 25, visitors over 65, holders of the Rolling Venice card and holders of an ISIC card. Admission is free for residents of the Comune di Venezia and for those born there, for infants aged 0 to 5, for disabled visitors and an accompanying person, for ICOM members and for MUVE Friend Card holders (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026a; 2026g).
Timed slots are where the civic system gets awkward. The Museum Pass carries no reservation requirement at all (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026a). The St Mark's Square Museums ticket behaves differently: tickets without a specific entry time slot are admitted to the Doge's Palace from 12:00 onwards, so a morning at the palace means choosing a slot when you buy (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026b). The Clock Tower takes prior booking only, with a guide (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026e).
Outside the civic network the rules relax. The Gallerie dell'Accademia recommends booking online on busy days without requiring it, and on the free admission days entry is first come, first served with no booking (Gallerie dell'Accademia, 2026). The Peggy Guggenheim Collection suggests buying online and choosing an entry time (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026). None of these tickets has anything to do with the city entry fee, which is a separate charge on separate days.
