Guggenheim Tickets, Discounts, Free Hours and City Passes

An adult ticket costs $30 at the Guggenheim in New York, €12 in Bilbao and €17 at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. Those are the full prices the three museums publish on their own sites, and we checked them on 3 November 2026. This page is the one place on guggenheim.museum where we keep current prices, so every other page of ours points here instead of repeating a number that could go stale.

A word on who we are: this site is independent and not affiliated with the Guggenheim museums or the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. We do not sell museum admission. Prices change with the season, so use the figures below to plan a budget and then confirm them on the museum's own ticket page before you pay. We say which source each number comes from, and we say when we could not read one.

The three museums set age limits differently, which catches families out. New York's cutoff for children is 12, Bilbao's free band runs up to 18 and Venice's stops at 10. Student rules differ too: Bilbao gives its student price to ages 18 to 26, Venice to students under 26 with a current ID, and New York to students with ID and no stated age limit. Seniors start at 65 in New York and Bilbao and at 70 in Venice.

The Plan Your Visit and discounts pages say children under 12 enter free. The museum's Family Programs page says children ages 12 and under receive free admission. Those two readings differ for exactly one age. We could not find a page that settles it, so we leave the call to you.

If your child is 12, ask the museum before the visit rather than trusting either wording, and do not assume the ticket will be waived at the desk.

Every Tuesday and Sunday from 4:00 to 5:30 pm, you choose what to pay. The museum's suggested contribution is $10 and the minimum is $1. On December 28 and 30 the window moves to 5:00 to 6:30 pm. The museum strongly recommends advance reservations, and says a limited number of tickets are sold on site during the window. In other words, turning up at 4:00 does not guarantee a ticket.

Older guides still describe a Saturday-evening free slot. The current museum pages do not mention one. We also found no source saying cash is accepted or required for the pay-what-you-wish window, so treat advice about bringing cash as one person's habit, not a rule. The museum closes at 5:30 pm on regular days and the last tickets are issued about 15 minutes before that. The pay-what-you-wish window ends at closing time.

In Bilbao an adult pays €12. Students from 18 to 26 and visitors over 65 or retired pay €6, and anyone under 18 enters free, with children under 12 required to be with an adult. The museum offers a combined ticket with the Museo de Bellas Artes at €16 for adults and €8 for students and seniors, which is the cheapest way to see both. Visitors with disabilities get a reduced rate and a companion enters free. Groups pay a group rate from 20 entries.

Every ticket includes the audio guide, which you use by scanning a QR code with your own phone. Venice charges separately for the same thing. The museum states no recurring free day. The one price break built into the calendar is 50% off from 4:00 to 7:00 pm on the last day of each exhibition. A free weekend in October 2025, for the museum's anniversary, was a one-off reported by the local press, so do not plan around it.

Yes, but only for locals. On Thursdays from 2:00 to 6:00 pm the museum is free for residents of the City of Venice, people born in Venice, and students at Venetian universities and recognized vocational schools. A valid ID or student card is required, places are limited and the museum recommends booking. A tourist staying in Venice does not qualify.

If you hold a ticket from Gallerie dell'Accademia, Galleria di Palazzo Cini or Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection charges you €14 instead of €17. The scheme, called the Dorsoduro Museum Mile, runs the other way too. The Museum Mile page lists a reduced price at each partner when you show a Guggenheim ticket: €12 at the Accademia, €7 at Palazzo Cini and €15 at Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana on 3 November 2026. The special rates are valid for seven days after you buy the first entrance ticket. The partners set their own prices, so check them on their sites.

The museum opens on Friday, 11 December 2026, so on the day we checked it was not yet open. The figure in circulation is AED 70 for general admission, reported by the Emirates news agency WAM and by Gulf News. According to those reports, entry is free for under-18s, university students in the UAE, UAE citizens and residents aged 60 and over, and people with disabilities (with a free companion). The National adds AED 35 for teachers employed in the UAE and UAE military, and AED 50 for Fazaa and Esaad card holders. The museum's own ticket page loads as an empty shell without JavaScript, so we could not read a price there. No hours, closing days or house rules were published when we looked, and we will not guess them. Our page on what we know about Guggenheim Abu Dhabi keeps the running list.

Sometimes, and rarely as a free extra. The museum's discounts page names four New York passes it accepts: New York CityPASS, New York Attraction Pass, Go City's New York Explorer Pass and The New York Pass. You show the pass to Visitor Experience staff when you arrive. We found nothing about passes for Bilbao or Venice on either museum's pages.

A decision rule: with CityPASS at $149 and the Guggenheim at $30, the other four attractions must cost more than $119 at their own gates for the pass to pay off. If the Guggenheim is the only museum you want, or you can make the Tuesday or Sunday window, a pass is a poor fit.

Third parties sell tickets and tour products that include a Guggenheim visit, and they price in their own service. One independent guide to the Venice museum lists a GetYourGuide ticket at €18.50, which it frames as the €17 door price plus €1.50 for a guaranteed timed slot, while the header of the same page says "from €19". The two numbers on that page do not agree with each other. CityPASS shows a $2 per-ticket fee on its own page. Neither is a scandal; the point is that a price you see on a marketplace is not the museum's price.

On this site, links to tours and tickets are partner links, and we may earn a commission if you book through them, at no extra cost to you. What those partners sell is their own product. It is not the museum's ticket and it is not an admission upgrade we control. Read the listing for three things: whether admission is included, whether a guide is included, and whether you pick a time slot.

This one needs care. The museum's legal notice says online ticket scalping is expressly prohibited, and it forbids giving third parties access to the ticketing service from any channel other than the museum's own website. Online tickets are not subject to the right of withdrawal and cannot be returned, although the museum will refund or reissue one if the museum itself is the reason you cannot use it. We are not lawyers and we do not know how each marketplace structures its Bilbao products. What we can say is the practical rule:

If you only want to enter the museum, buy the €12 ticket from the museum's own website. If a listing is a guided tour with admission, treat it as that provider's tour, and read exactly what it promises.

The City of Venice's Access Fee trial for 2026 ended, and the official site states that as of 27 July 2026 it does not apply. The fee comes back in 2027 on 72 listed days, from 26 March to 15 August. The City says the arrangements will be announced by 31 December 2026, and no 2027 amount has been published. Figures reported for 2026 are no guide. Check the City's Venezia Unica site before you travel in that window. The fee is separate from the €17 museum ticket.

Getting to the museum by water costs extra, and the prices below are AVM's own, checked on 3 November 2026. Tickets must be validated at the start of each journey and again each time you change vehicle. They are not valid on lines 16 and 19, on the casino line or on any Alilaguna service.

Directions and stops for the museum itself are on our getting there page.

For an individual visitor, none of the three museums' pages we read makes advance booking compulsory for an ordinary ticket. That is a reading of what is published, not a guarantee, and it can change on busy dates. What the pages do say:

In Venice the ticket office closes at 5:00 pm, so arrive earlier than you think. Buy ahead for a summer weekend or a Biennale year, and for the New York pay-what-you-wish window whenever you can.

We read competitor guides while preparing these pages. Several repeat figures that no longer match the museums. A New York pay-what-you-wish slot on Saturday evening, and Wednesday and Thursday closures, appear in older guides; the museum now lists Tuesday and Sunday 4:00 to 5:30 pm and opens every day. At least one guide to Bilbao still quotes €18 for an adult, while the museum's page says €12. Another guide dates its Bilbao prices "verified March 2026" yet describes events in October. If a date on a ticket guide is older than a couple of months, assume the price is too.