Punta della Dogana

Punta della Dogana tickets in 2026: one ticket for two museums

The official price list is short. Full price is 20 EUR, the reduced rate is 15 EUR, visitors aged 20 to 26 pay 7 EUR on production of an identity card, and single visitors up to the age of 19 go in free, as do Pinault Collection members, visitors with disabilities and the person accompanying them (Pinault Collection, 2026).

The Italian version of the same page describes what you are buying as a "biglietto unico per accedere alle mostre in corso nel periodo di apertura delle sedi", a single ticket for the exhibitions running at the venues during their opening period (Pinault Collection, 2026). In practice that means one purchase at either door covers both Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi. Neither the English nor the Italian page publishes a validity window in days, so do not assume the ticket is good for a second day. Ask at the desk if you want to split the two venues across a trip.

The 15 EUR reduced rate goes to residents of the metropolitan city of Venice, teachers, visitors over 65 and groups of 15 adults or more, among other categories, and a document proving entitlement has to be shown (Pinault Collection, 2026). Residents of the Citta Metropolitana di Venezia and students at the listed Venetian universities and conservatory enter free on Wednesdays. Guided tours and other activities start from 80 EUR (Pinault Collection, 2026).

Punta della Dogana opening hours and the closing day

During exhibition periods the venues open every day except Tuesday, from 10:00 to 18:00, and the last entry is at 17:00 (Pinault Collection, 2026). They close on 25 December. The Italian page gives the same hours and the same Christmas closure (Pinault Collection, 2026).

Tuesday is the trap. Palazzo Grassi, Punta della Dogana and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection all close on Tuesdays, so a Tuesday in Dorsoduro leaves the Gallerie dell'Accademia as the one large art museum open, and the Accademia in turn closes on Mondays (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026; Gallerie dell'Accademia, 2026). Planning the week around those two days saves a wasted walk.

The 17:00 cut-off is worth taking seriously at Punta della Dogana, because the 2026 season puts two separate solo exhibitions in the building, one of them spread across the upper floor (Pinault Collection, 2026). An hour before closing is enough to see one of them properly. Arriving at 15:00 or earlier gives room for both without hurrying.

The building is accessible inside by lift and mobile ramps, the ticket desks carry a voice amplification system and a hearing loop, and a sign language guide can be requested free of charge with a week's notice (Pinault Collection, 2026). Small dogs may be carried in.

The museum closes between exhibitions, so check the dates before you travel

The hours above come with a condition that is easy to miss: they apply "during exhibition periods", and the official page ends its visitor section by asking you to check exhibition dates before visiting (Pinault Collection, 2026). Punta della Dogana does not hold a permanent display. When a season ends, the building shuts while the works go out and the next installation goes in.

For the current calendar that boundary is 22 November 2026, the closing date of both Punta della Dogana exhibitions (Pinault Collection, 2026). Palazzo Grassi runs on to 10 January 2027. A trip in late November or in December 2026 therefore risks finding Punta della Dogana closed while the same 20 EUR ticket still works at Palazzo Grassi, which changes the value of the purchase.

Check two things before you go. First, the programme page on the official site, which lists each exhibition with its venue and its opening and closing dates. Second, the practical information page, which carries the hours in force at the time. Both sit on pinaultcollection.com. A travel guide, this one included, can only report the dates published on the day it was written, and the Pinault Collection changes its Venice programme every year, usually opening at the end of March.

What is on at Punta della Dogana in 2026

Two solo exhibitions fill the building from 29 March to 22 November 2026 (Pinault Collection, 2026).

Lorna Simpson's Third Person brings together around fifty works, including paintings, collages, sculptures, installations and film, drawn from private collections, international institutions and the artist's own archive. It was organised in partnership with the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where an earlier version was shown in spring 2025, and the Venice selection was reworked for these rooms with new pieces made for the occasion. The show is curated by the general director and general curator of the Pinault Collection (Pinault Collection, 2026).

Paulo Nazareth's Algebra occupies the upper floor and covers more than twenty years of the Brazilian artist's practice, including previously unseen work. The title comes from the Arabic al-jabr, the setting of broken bones. It is curated by an independent curator (Pinault Collection, 2026).

The same ticket opens Palazzo Grassi, where two shows run from 29 March 2026 to 10 January 2027: Michael Armitage's The Promise of Change, a selection of over one hundred and fifty works, and Amar Kanwar's Co-travellers, a group of multi-media installations on the second floor (Pinault Collection, 2026). Seeing all four shows on one 20 EUR ticket is the strongest argument for buying it, and it needs roughly half a day.

Getting there: the Salute vaporetto stop and the walk from the Accademia bridge

The address is Dorsoduro 2, and the official arrival instruction is the Salute vaporetto stop (Pinault Collection, 2026). Access from Salute to the entrance is free of architectural barriers.

Salute is served by navigation line 1, the Grand Canal service, on the timetable in force from 14 September 2026. Daytime departures run at a regular 12 minute interval in each direction, and the ride from Accademia to Salute towards San Marco takes 5 minutes (ACTV, 2026). Lines 2, 5.1 and 5.2 do not call at Salute at all: their nearest landing is Zattere, on the Giudecca canal side of Dorsoduro (ACTV, 2026). If your pass or your route puts you on a line 2 boat, get off at Zattere or Accademia and walk.

A single 75 minute Rete Unica ticket covering the waterborne network costs 9.50 EUR, and a one day Venezia Daily Pass costs 25.00 EUR, valid 24 hours from first validation (ACTV, 2026). One return trip to Salute does not pay for the day pass on its own.

Walking is often faster than waiting. From the Accademia bridge the route stays on the Dorsoduro bank and passes the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute before reaching the point, so the walk can absorb two more stops on the same afternoon.

The customs house and what the Ando conversion kept

The warehouses at the point were redesigned by Giuseppe Benoni and completed in their present form in 1682 (Pinault Collection, 2026). At the end of the 1980s the building fell into decay, and it stayed that way until 2007, when the Municipality of Venice issued a tender for the protection and recovery of the monument. The bid submitted with a redevelopment project by Tadao Ando won it (Pinault Collection, 2026).

The conversion took just over a year and was completed in 2009 (Pinault Collection, 2026). Ando brought the original brick walls and wooden roof trusses back into view and worked on the foundations to protect the building from damp and from the effects of high tides, a real constraint on a structure standing at the open end of the lagoon. Outside, his one visible addition is a set of orthogonal steel grids over the external openings, a reference to the door Carlo Scarpa designed for the Olivetti showroom in the Procuratie Vecchie on Piazza San Marco. Inside, a reinforced concrete cube sits in the central space, a device Ando used again about a decade later in the rotunda of the Bourse de Commerce in Paris (Pinault Collection, 2026).

Palazzo Grassi, acquired in 2005 and opened in 2006, was the first of the Venice venues, and the Teatrino followed in 2013. All were restored by the same architect (Pinault Collection, 2026).

Punta della Dogana, the Guggenheim or the Accademia: choosing one

Three art museums sit within a short walk of each other in Dorsoduro, and the prices published in October 2026 separate them clearly.

Punta della Dogana costs 20 EUR and covers two buildings, which works out at 10 EUR a venue if you use both, and it is the only one of the three that is free for everyone under 20 (Pinault Collection, 2026). The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is 17 EUR full price, 14 EUR reduced for over 70s and listed card holders, and 9 EUR for students under 26 and for visitors aged 10 to 18, with under 10s free; it opens daily 10:00 to 18:00 and closes on Tuesdays and 25 December (Peggy Guggenheim Collection, 2026). The Gallerie dell'Accademia is 20 EUR full price, 2 EUR for EU citizens aged 18 to 25 and free under 18, open Tuesday to Sunday 9:00 to 19:00 with ticket sales ending at 18:00 (Gallerie dell'Accademia, 2026).

So the choice is about more than money. An EU visitor aged 18 to 25 pays 2 EUR at the Accademia for Venetian painting from the fourteenth to the eighteenth century. A visitor aged 20 to 26 pays 7 EUR for two contemporary art venues. On a Tuesday only the Accademia opens. None of the three is covered by the civic Museum Pass, which costs 50 EUR and runs to the Doge's Palace and eleven other municipal museums (Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, 2026).