Brancacci Chapel tickets: how booking and entry work

How a visit is organised

The Brancacci Chapel is run as a museum by the city of Florence, through the Musei Civici Fiorentini. It sits in the transept of Santa Maria del Carmine, but visitors do not walk in from the nave. You enter through the convent cloister at Piazza del Carmine 14, where the ticket office and information point are on the ground floor, and from there you are taken to the chapel with your group.

Access is by groups of up to 30 people, for a maximum of 30 minutes. The rule exists because the chapel is a small, enclosed space and the paintings on its walls are fragile. Thirty people standing in it is already a full room. It also means the chapel can only admit a limited number of visitors a day, and that is the root of every other rule in this guide.

Thirty minutes sounds brief, and it is. It is also enough, if you know what you are looking at. The scenes are close together and you can see the whole cycle from the middle of the floor. Read our guide to the frescoes beforehand and you will spend the half hour looking rather than working out which scene is which.

Opening days and entry times

The chapel opens every day except Tuesday. On Monday and from Wednesday to Saturday it opens 10:00 to 17:00. On Sunday it opens 13:00 to 17:00. Last entry is 45 minutes before closing time. It is also closed on New Year's Day, 7 January, Easter Sunday, 16 July, 15 August and Christmas Day.

Entry times are sold online at set points through the day. From Monday to Saturday, apart from Tuesday, the online times run from 10:15 to 15:45; on Sunday they run from 13:15 to 15:45. Not every half hour in that span is sold online, so the list you see in our calendar is shorter than the opening hours suggest. That is the museum's grid, not a gap in ours.

One more date rule: the first Sunday of each month is not sold online, so we cannot book it and those Sundays are closed in our calendar. If your only free day in Florence is a first Sunday, plan the chapel for the day before or after.

Dates are released in blocks

The museum does not keep a full year of dates on sale. It releases entry times in blocks. When we checked in October 2026, dates up to 31 December 2026 were on sale, and nothing for 2027 had been released. The museum had not announced when the next block would open.

That has a practical consequence. If you are planning a spring or summer trip, you may find that your date simply cannot be bought yet, on the museum's own system or anywhere else. This is not a sell-out, and there is no secret allocation for early buyers. The dates are just not in the system.

Our calendar handles both cases. If your date is already on sale and has room, you choose your entry time and pay, and we book it. If your date is not on sale yet, or is already full, the calendar offers our waiting list instead: you hold the date without paying, we watch for it to open or for places to come back, and we email you a payment link when we can book. If nothing opens, you are never charged.

Saturday to Monday: the combined ticket

On Saturday, Sunday and Monday the museum sells only one kind of ticket for the chapel: a combined ticket for the Brancacci Chapel and the Fondazione Salvatore Romano. On those days our fares are that combined ticket, sold at the same entry times as the chapel. You do not need to buy anything extra, and there is no chapel-only option on those days.

The Fondazione Salvatore Romano is a small museum in the old refectory of the convent of Santo Spirito, at Piazza Santo Spirito 29, a short walk east of the Carmine. Orcagna's fourteenth-century Crucifixion fills one whole wall, above a collection of sculpture, architectural fragments and detached frescoes that the antique dealer Salvatore Romano gave to the city in 1946. It includes works by Tino di Camaino and Donatello, and it is still arranged the way Romano himself laid it out.

With the combined ticket you choose your time for the chapel. You can visit the Fondazione at any time it is open on the same day: Saturday and Monday from 11:00 to 17:00, Sunday from 13:00 to 17:00, with last entry 30 minutes before closing. Many visitors see the chapel first, walk across to Santo Spirito, and finish in the refectory. Our Oltrarno guide sets out that walk.

Fares, and who enters free

We sell two fares. The adult fare is for visitors aged 26 and over. The 18–25 fare is for visitors aged 18 to 25, who show ID proving their age at the gate. University students of any age, from any country, who hold a certificate of enrolment for the current academic year also qualify for the 18–25 fare; bring the certificate with your ticket.

Visitors under 18, of any nationality, enter free with ID. They are not free to walk in, though: the museum requires every visitor, free or paying, to book an entry time. When you book with us, tell us the ages of any under-18s in your party at checkout and we add their free tickets to your booking at no charge. Children under 12 may visit only with an accompanying adult.

Disabled visitors are entitled to free priority entry for themselves and, where their disability certificate provides for it, one companion. Because those tickets are free, we do not sell them. Write to us before you book and we will arrange the reservation with you so that everyone in your party is on the same entry time.

ID and documents at the gate

Tickets bought online are issued in the visitor's name and carry a date and an entry time. The museum's terms say both must be respected. At the chapel you go straight to the entrance gate rather than the ticket desk, and staff validate your ticket by scanning its barcode.

Anyone on a reduced or free ticket shows the document that entitles them to it along with the ticket: ID showing age for the 18–25 fare and for under-18s, the enrolment certificate for university students, and the relevant certificate for disabled visitors. Keep these to hand rather than in a bag you will have to unpack in the cloister.

Only guide dogs for blind or partially sighted visitors and certified assistance dogs are admitted, and the museums ask to be told at least 15 days in advance. Other pets cannot come in.

Changes, cancellations and lateness

Once a ticket is booked and paid, the museum does not change or cancel it. Its terms are clear that there is no refund if a visitor changes their mind, buys the wrong ticket or does not turn up. Because we book on that system in your name, the same applies to tickets booked through us.

The practical advice is simple. Book a date you are sure of, and a time that leaves a margin. If you are coming from the other side of the river, allow for the walk and a few minutes to find the cloister entrance. If you are combining the chapel with a timed visit elsewhere, such as the Uffizi or the Accademia, put at least an hour between them.

If you are unsure of your plans, the waiting list is a better way to hold interest in a date than buying a ticket you may not use. It costs nothing until we can actually book.

How booking with us works

We are an independent booking service, not the chapel or the Musei Civici Fiorentini. You choose your fare, date and entry time on our site and pay one price in your own currency. That price includes the entry ticket and our service. We then reserve your entry time in your name on the museums' own ticket system and send you the e-ticket by email.

If you have questions before you book, about ages, ID, the weekend ticket or anything else, write to us and a person will answer. If your date is not on sale yet or is full, use the waiting list and we will contact you when we can book. Nothing is charged until then.

If you already hold a Firenzecard or another museum card that gives free entry, you need a free timed ticket from the museum and do not need to book through us. Our fares are for visitors buying entry.

On the day

Arrive at Piazza del Carmine a few minutes before your time. The church front is bare stone on a broad square; the museum entrance is through the cloister door beside it, at number 14. Show your e-ticket at the gate, with any ID your fare needs, and wait for your group.

Inside, take a moment in the middle of the floor before you go close to any one wall. The cycle reads best as a whole first: the two registers, the window behind the altar, the Madonna on the altar, Adam and Eve on the pilasters either side of the entrance. Then go to the scenes you came for. Half an hour goes quickly.