Doge's Palace Skip the Line Tickets

Explore Doge's Palace and Venice's key museums with timed entry, self-guided flexibility, and optional skip-the-line and guided upgrades.

Getting started

Enter Doge's Palace at your reserved time slot and proceed directly inside using your timed entry access. Begin your self-guided visit or meet your English-speaking guide at the designated area if you have selected a guided tour option. Afterwards, continue independently to the Correr Museum, Archaeological Museum, and Monumental Rooms of the Biblioteca Marciana using the same pass.

What to expect

Doge's Palace

Explore the political and judicial heart of the former Venetian Republic, moving at your own pace through grand ceremonial spaces and historic prison areas.

Features

• Walk through the Doge's apartments and council halls, where the Venetian leadership met and governed, and see how power and ceremony shaped the palace layout.

• Cross the enclosed Bridge of Sighs and continue into the New Prisons, gaining access to these historic detention spaces as part of your palace visit.

• Use your digital audio guide in English, Italian, Spanish, German, or Italian, if you select this option, to hear in-ear commentary while you explore key rooms and passageways.

• Join an English guided tour of Doge's Palace, if you select this option, to have a guide lead you through the main halls and explain the history and function of the palace.

St Mark's Basilica

Visit Venice's landmark basilica, located on St Mark's Square, when you choose one of the combined palace and basilica options.

Features

• Enter St Mark's Basilica, if you select a basilica-inclusive option, and explore this major religious site alongside your Doge's Palace visit.

• Benefit from skip-the-line entry to both St Mark's Basilica and Doge's Palace, if you select this option, to save waiting time at the main entrances.

• Follow an English guided tour of St Mark's Basilica and Doge's Palace, if you select this combined option, to connect the stories of Venice's religious and political centers in a single visit.

Correr Museum

Continue your experience at the Correr Museum on St Mark's Square, included with your palace ticket.

Features

• Visit the Correr Museum with the same pass and explore its collections that trace different aspects of Venetian life and history.

• Use your flexible, self-guided access to spend more time in the sections that interest you most, visiting on the same day as the other museums in the complex.

Archaeological Museum

Access the Archaeological Museum, which is part of the same museum complex and entrance as the Correr Museum.

Features

• Enter the Archaeological Museum with your included access and explore its collections at your own pace.

• Take advantage of the combined entry with the Correr Museum and Marciana Library, visiting all three museums on the same day through a single entrance.

Monumental Rooms of the Biblioteca Marciana

Round out your museum pass with access to the Monumental Rooms of the Biblioteca Marciana.

Features

• Step into the Monumental Rooms of the Biblioteca Marciana using your pass and include this historic library space in your museum circuit.

• Visit the Marciana Library, Archaeological Museum, and Correr Museum within a 3-day window from your Doge's Palace visit, with all three museums accessed on the same day from a single entrance.

Wrapping up

If you select the multilingual audio-guide option, you enhance your self-guided visit with app-based commentary in your chosen language while using your own headphones. Choosing one of the English-guided tour options adds structured commentary inside Doge's Palace or both St Mark's Basilica and the palace, while the skip-the-line upgrade focuses on faster entry to the two main sites.