Accademia Gallery

Accademia Gallery tickets: entry with the app, the plain entry and the Uffizi combo

Accademia Gallery tickets all get you in to see Michelangelo’s David, along with the permanent collection and whatever temporary exhibition is on. The one we sell for €29 adds an audio guide app you download to your phone.

Oddly, that costs less than our plain entry, the Entry Ticket at €29. That one also comes in versions with a digital audio guide, with the gallery’s official audio guide or as a hosted entry, so it’s the one to pick if you want the official guide. None of our Accademia tickets can be cancelled or refunded.

You don’t have to book, but the gallery highly recommends it: without a booking, it says, the wait to get in may be long.

If the Uffizi, Florence’s great painting gallery, is on your list too, the Uffizi and Accademia combo costs €69.50. You pick one option for each museum: priority entry, an audio guide or a guided tour at the Uffizi, and the ticket, a hosted entry or a guided tour at the Accademia, with the Vox audio guide app on top.

The Accademia Gallery with the Firenze Card: included, booked by phone

On the Firenze Card the Accademia is an included entry, though you still book a time, and that booking is compulsory and free. There’s no online way to do it: you book by phone or at a ticket office, and on the day you go in through the priority door for people with a reservation.

You can also book in person at one of the Firenze Card ticket offices: My Accademia, at Via Ricasoli 105r, Orsanmichele or the Bargello. Don’t count on the first entry of the day, though: one 2026 guide found the 8:15 slots usually aren’t offered to cardholders. Turn up with the card and no booking and there’s no priority door for you.

The card only pays off when the Accademia is one of several paid museums on your list. With the Accademia and the Uffizi alone, the two tickets cost less than the card, and our Firenze Card and Florence’s other passes page works out which one suits your list.

The Uffizi’s five-day Passepartout and the Duomo passes don’t include the Accademia. You buy the Firenze Card online before your trip and start its 72 hours at the first museum.

Accademia Gallery opening hours since March 2026

Whichever way you get in, the times changed this year. Since 15 March 2026 the Accademia shares its timetable with the Bargello, so a guide with older hours is out of date.

The gallery starts closing ten minutes before 18:50, so if you come in late, see the musical instruments on the ground floor and the first-floor rooms first: they close to visitors at 18:40.

Through the Hall of the Prisoners to Michelangelo’s David

You don’t come upon the David all at once. He’s there at the end of a long hall lined on both sides with Michelangelo’s Prisoners, also called the Slaves, figures the sculptor left unfinished and still half in the rough marble. He’s in view the whole way down.

At the end of the hall he stands in the Tribuna, an apse with a coffered half-dome, framed by grey stone pilasters, with a glazed dome above letting the daylight in.

Walk round him and look up. From below you see the curled hair, the gaze turned to one side and the left hand raised to the shoulder.

Your ticket also takes you through the rest of the gallery: the musical instruments wing on the ground floor, the exhibition rooms on the first floor and the temporary exhibition on at the time of your visit.