Venice Pass and Venice's museum passes

Venice Museum Pass: the Doge’s Palace and the civic museums

The Venice Museum Pass costs €50 and gets you once into each of the city’s civic museums, starting with the Doge’s Palace. The palace entry also takes in the Correr Museum, the National Archaeological Museum and the Marciana Library, which you see as one route from Piazza San Marco.

The rest of the pass is spread across the city: Ca’ Rezzonico, the museum of 18th-century Venice, the modern art at Ca’ Pesaro, Palazzo Mocenigo’s textiles and perfume, Carlo Goldoni’s house, the Fortuny Museum and the Natural History Museum. Out in the lagoon it takes you into the Glass Museum on Murano and the Lace Museum on Burano.

No museum on the pass needs a booking. The date you pick when you buy is the day the pass starts, it runs for three months from there, and Tiqets lets you cancel up to 24 hours before that date. Children from 6 to 14 pay the reduced price at checkout, and children up to 5 go into the civic museums without paying.

Tiqets suggests swapping your voucher for the pass at one of the other museums first, so that at the Doge’s Palace you can go straight to the fast line. After that you show the pass at each museum and go in. The pass carries no booked time, and the palace lets in visitors without one from 12:00, so the fast line is for the afternoon and the mornings are best spent on the museums further out.

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Venezia Unica City Pass: the Museum Pass plus the Querini and the Carmini

The Venezia Unica City Pass adds two places that the Museum Pass leaves out: the Querini Stampalia Foundation’s house museum, and the Scuola Grande dei Carmini, with its ceiling by Tiepolo. It comes in two versions. All Venice, at €62.90, has every civic museum with those two. San Marco, at €43.90, keeps only the four museums on Piazza San Marco with the same two extras, so for the palace with the Querini or the Carmini and nothing else, San Marco costs less.

At the Doge’s Palace the City Pass ties you to one date. Its palace entry is valid only on the day you choose when you buy, from 12:00, until the last entry at 18:00 from April to October or 17:00 from November to March. The other museums have no set day: you have six months from your palace visit to see them with All Venice, and three with San Marco.

The City Pass has no transport, and once bought it can’t be refunded. Children up to 5 go in without paying.

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Venice Pass: the Doge’s Palace, St Mark’s Basilica and a boat or a gondola

Neither pass above takes you into St Mark’s Basilica, next door to the Doge’s Palace. A Tiqets bundle called simply Venice Pass, from €75, puts the two together with a boat or a gondola as the third ticket. You choose the options as you buy, and each ticket has its own date.

Nothing in the bundle can be refunded once bought. It comes with a 10% code for your next five Tiqets bookings in Venice, valid for a month.

The Venice Pass: four parts, from the Secret Itineraries to a gondola

The Venice Pass starts at €88 and gives you more to choose from. In the basilica part you pick a hosted entry, a short guided tour in English, or the entry with the terrace. At the Doge’s Palace the choice is fast-track entry, a guided tour, the Secret Itineraries tour with a guide, or the palace with a pass to Venice’s civic museums, which Tiqets says covers eight without naming them.

The third part is the water: the boat to Murano and Burano, the longer one that adds Torcello, or a gondola ride on the Grand Canal with commentary. The fourth comes without a choice, a guided visit to the Gondola History Gallery with a virtual reality experience.

Against the three-ticket Venice Pass, the higher price buys you the Gondola History Gallery and a wider choice at the palace, from the Secret Itineraries to the museums pass. If fast-track entry to the palace, the basilica and the islands boat are all you want, the smaller bundle starts lower.

Is the Venice Pass worth it? Which pass pays off for your list

Start from the Doge’s Palace, since all four passes include it. On its own, our fast-track palace ticket costs €35, less than any pass, and it comes with a time you choose, so you can go in from 9:00.

Add Ca’ Rezzonico at €15, or another of the bigger civic museums, and the two tickets reach the €50 of the Museum Pass. From there, the €15 ticket you’d buy for Ca’ Pesaro, Palazzo Mocenigo or the Glass Museum stays in your pocket. Carlo Goldoni’s house and the Lace Museum on Burano, at €7 each, add less to the sum.

The City Pass gets ahead when the Querini Stampalia or the Carmini comes into it. Our Querini ticket is €17 and the Carmini €10, so the palace with either of them costs more than the €43.90 of the San Marco pass. Add the civic museums further out and All Venice only pays off with the Querini: the Museum Pass plus the Querini comes to more than the €62.90 of All Venice, while the Museum Pass plus the Carmini still comes to less. Without the Querini, the Museum Pass is the better buy for the civic museums, and its palace entry isn’t tied to one date.

If St Mark’s Basilica and the lagoon are on your list too, weigh the bundles. With the options Tiqets shows first, each comes to a few euros less than the same tickets bought one by one. Pick a cheaper option and the bundle price and the one-by-one total both move, so check the receipt under each bundle, which adds up the tickets for you. The calculator at the top does the sum for the places you pick, against every pass at once.

One more check before you pick your days: a pass used on a Monday and a Tuesday loses several museums.

St Mark’s Basilica, the campanile and the vaporetto alongside a Venice pass

Outside the two bundles, St Mark’s Basilica is a ticket of its own, with a set time and your name on it, and the tickets we sell add a host or a guide. Our hosted entry, from €17, gets you into the church at your booked time, with the terrace and the Pala d’Oro as options on the same ticket, and it can’t be refunded. The skip-the-line guided tour is the one you can cancel, up to 48 hours before your time. Every option is on our St Mark’s Basilica tickets page.

The bell tower in the square, St Mark’s Campanile, isn’t on any of the four passes. Our ticket costs €25, with a digital audio guide, and there’s a lift to the top.

The Museum Pass sends you out to Murano and Burano, and the vaporetto, Venice’s water bus, isn’t on it. Our ACTV passes cost €30 for a day, €40 for two and €50 for three, and only start counting the first time you validate them. Our guide to the Venice vaporetto works out which one pays off for your stay.

The day-tripper charge, Venice’s access fee, is separate from all of this. It isn’t being collected now and returns on 72 days between 26 March and 15 August 2027, with the price and exemptions due by 31 December 2026; in 2026, visitors staying the night in the city didn’t pay it.

Chorus Pass: its churches are now free to enter

Unlike St Mark’s, the churches of the old Chorus circuit open their doors at no charge from Monday to Saturday, and that has left the Chorus Pass, which used to be the way into them, with little to do.

Four spaces inside them still charge: the museums of Santo Stefano and San Zaccaria, the Oratory of the Crucifix at San Polo and the monumental sacristy of the Redentore. For one adult or one student, the pass costs at least as much as their four tickets together.

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