Uffizi Gallery tickets 2026 and how to see it with a child

What it costs

Why buying early costs more here than buying late is explained in Florence in one day. Below is everything the official ticket office sells:

There is no seasonal pricing at the moment — the same rate applies all year. Open Tuesday to Sunday, 8.15 am to 6.30 pm, last entry 5.30 pm. Closed on Mondays, 1 January and 25 December.

A ticket for your child

Since 13 October 2025 every ticket carries a name, free ones included. The ticket site has a separate line for children, “Gratuito minori 18 anni”, at EUR 0, and you enter the name exactly as on the passport. If it does not match the document, you are turned away without a refund. Children under 12 must be with an adult, and one account can buy no more than 10 tickets a day. Book the children’s tickets in the same order as your own so the whole family goes in on one time slot.

How fast the slots go. We opened the ticket site on 1 October: there were no online tickets left for 1, 2, 3 and 6 October, and for Wednesday 7 October the first free entry was 11.45 am — the whole morning had sold out. The 4.30 and 4.45 pm slots were still available. The desk at the museum keeps selling even when online is sold out, but expect a long wait.

Free days are not for families

Entry is free on the first Sunday of the month and on 25 April, 2 June and 4 November. The catch: you cannot book on those days, and the free ticket is handed out right at the entrance — you cannot step out and come back.

Children are free anyway, so a family saves only the adults’ tickets — EUR 50 for two — and pays for it with a queue and a child in tow. We would not go.

What you can take in

• Water — up to 500 ml in a plastic bottle or flask. Anything larger is binned at security. Baby food, feeding bottles and juice cartons up to 250 ml are fine; other food and anything in glass are not.
• Rucksacks, large bags and long umbrellas go to the cloakroom. It is free, but items must be no bigger than 40×40×50 cm.
• Pushchairs. The official rules neither ban them nor list them among items to check in, and the museum has a lift. Bulky items are not allowed in the Vasari Corridor, though — if that is in the plan, bring a baby carrier.

A route for an hour and a half to two hours

The official map shows three routes through the Uffizi, and the shortest, the “percorso veloce”, takes an hour and a half to two hours on the second floor (floors are counted the Italian way, from zero, so this is the top one). It has everything people come for. Our order, and what to look for with a child:

1. Room A4. Three huge enthroned Madonnas — Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto. The challenge: which throne could you actually sit on?
2. Room A8, Uccello’s “Battle of San Romano”. Find the broken lances on the ground: the painter laid them out in straight lines to show perspective — let your child trace where they meet.
3. Rooms A11–A12, Botticelli. In “Primavera” find Cupid wearing a blindfold and the flowers spilling from the nymph’s mouth — then simply count how many different flowers you can find. In “The Birth of Venus”, find the shell and the roses carried on the wind.
4. Corridor A23 — short, with windows onto the Arno. From here you see the Ponte Vecchio and the covered Vasari Corridor running above the shops. A good spot for a five-minute pause.
5. Corridor A24, the marble boar. This is the Roman original from which the bronze “Porcellino” at the Mercato Nuovo was cast — the one whose nose people rub.
6. Room A25, the Duke of Urbino by Piero della Francesca. Why only in profile? The duke lost his right eye in a tournament.
7. Room A35, Leonardo. In the “Annunciation”, let your child find what the angel is holding (a lily) and what Mary was doing when he arrived — there is an open book in front of her.
8. Room A38, Michelangelo’s “Doni Tondo”. Count the heads peering out of the frame.

Then the café and the exit down the Lanzi staircase. One rule: from that exit you cannot get back to the cloakroom or the audio guides, so the museum plainly advises against checking things in if you take the quick route. If your child still has energy, Caravaggio’s “Medusa” and “Bacchus” are on the first floor, in rooms E4–E5 — that is already the classic route.

Where to take a break

The café is at the end of the second floor, with a terrace above the Loggia dei Lanzi and a view of Palazzo Vecchio. It is the only place inside where you may eat. Next to it is a baby room, open until 6 pm; changing tables are in the toilets on the ground floor and the mezzanine. Before you go, download the free family route “Le predelle” from uffizi.it: it is about the small panels beneath altarpieces, which hang exactly at a child’s eye level.

The Vasari Corridor with a child

The corridor was closed in 2016 for restoration and is open again. You enter from the Uffizi, walk about a kilometre over the Ponte Vecchio and come out in the Boboli Gardens by Palazzo Pitti. Groups of up to 25 go with a member of museum staff, it takes about 45 minutes, and there is no way back.

• Booking is compulsory for everyone, including children under 6 — free, but with a reserved place.
• You enter the gallery two hours before your corridor slot. From the entrance to the meeting point in room D19 takes about 45 minutes. You must be there 5 minutes before the slot; latecomers are not waited for.
• Anything left in the cloakroom has to be collected on foot, back across the Ponte Vecchio.

Gallery plus corridor means three hours on a strict timetable. With children under ten we would not combine them. The museum sometimes opens the corridor on its own for evening walks without the gallery — check uffizi.it to see whether they run on your dates.

When a pass pays off

The 5-day PassePartout costs EUR 40 instead of EUR 29 + EUR 25 for the Uffizi and for Pitti with Boboli separately — a saving of EUR 14 per adult. The Uffizi must come first and be booked. The annual Family pass at EUR 120 gives two adults priority entry for a year. For a single trip it is EUR 12 more than separate tickets for two, but it pays off if you split the Uffizi into two short visits on different days — better for children than one long one.

Our other children’s routes around the city: all our tours in Florence.