Uffizi Tours for Kids

What the museum gives families for nothing

Children under 18 of any nationality enter the Uffizi free. They still need a ticket in their own name, reserved alongside yours and checked against a passport or ID card at the door, and children under 12 must be with an adult. So for two adults and two children buying the museum’s own advance tickets, the Uffizi charges €58 for the adults and nothing for the children.

The museum also runs a family program called Uffizi Kids. Reception staff wearing the Uffizi Kids pin will help you plan a route for your children’s ages, and the museum publishes self-guided family trails, among them “Monsters in Art!” and “Flowers at the Uffizi”. Families who will come back can buy the annual Family pass, €120 for two adults and up to eight listed minors.

How long a child lasts inside

The museum’s own shortest route, the second floor only, takes about an hour and a half to two hours and exits down the Lanzi staircase. For most children that is a reasonable ceiling, and it is where the famous pictures are, from Giotto to Botticelli, Leonardo and Michelangelo. The visit starts with 126 steps up the Grand Ducal Staircase, about four flights, before the first room; carrying a four-year-old, you will notice every one of them. Lifts exist for visitors who need them.

Guides consistently describe 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. as the busiest part of the day, with the 8.15 a.m. opening slots and the late afternoon calmer. A late start has a bonus: from 4 p.m. the museum sells its own afternoon ticket for €16 on the day or €20 in advance, which leaves two and a half hours before the 6.30 p.m. exit call, about what a child manages anyway.

Prams, carriers, bottles and bags

Prams and pushchairs are allowed inside if they are not oversized, but they cannot be left in the cloakroom or parked unattended in the rooms, so it stays with you for the whole visit. Large child-carrier backpacks are not permitted; front baby carriers of a reasonable size are. Backpacks and large bags go to the free cloakroom just inside the entrance under the eastern colonnade.

Baby bottles, powdered milk, baby food and children’s juice cartons under 25 cl are allowed, as are spill-proof bottles and cups for children, and water for anyone in a bottle of up to half a liter. There is a Baby Pit-Stop room for breastfeeding and changing inside the second-floor café, open until 6 p.m., with more changing tables in the basement toilets by the entrance and on the Lanzi staircase mezzanine.

The family tour on this site

The Skip-the-Line Uffizi Museum Tour for Kids & Families from Maria Tours for Kids and Families is a private two-and-a-half-hour tour for your family only. It costs $266 per adult, quoted for two adults and checked in October 2026 for the next available date; children’s places are priced when you add them. The guide meets you in Piazza della Signoria, or in your hotel lobby if you are staying in the center, chooses the works your children will respond to, and runs the visit as a set of games, quizzes and scorecards. Entrance fees are included, the tour is offered in English and Italian, and cancellation is free up to 24 hours before.

It scores 4.9 from 35 reviews, a small number, but consistent: one guide, Giulia, is named again and again, by the parents of a four- and six-year-old and of an eleven-year-old. One mother calls it anything but cheap and says her daughter followed the whole visit with interest. Commercial family tours in Florence are typically private, around two hours, built around an activity booklet or treasure hunt and aimed at roughly ages six to twelve. Our breakdown →

Cheaper ways to do it

The Uffizi Timed Entry Ticket + App Audioguide is $38 per adult, non-refundable, with no meeting point: a timed ticket, an audio app on your phone, and the second floor at your own speed with a Monsters trail in hand. For a family with children under school age, this is what I would book, with the plan of leaving while everyone is still happy. Our breakdown →

The Uffizi Gallery Priority Entry Small-Group Tour is $60 per adult with a group of nine at most, a licensed guide and a headset for an hour and a half. The listing itemizes a child’s museum ticket at €0, so you pay only the tour fee for them, and one reviewer’s thirteen-year-old stayed engaged throughout. Our breakdown →

The Uffizi Gallery Small Group Tour is $76 per adult, capped at 15, and its reviewers describe bringing children of 8 and 10 and teenagers of 14 and 17 and having the guide keep them interested. Our breakdown →

The conditions, then. With children under about six, a guide of any kind is a lot to ask of them; the cheap ticket and a short visit work better. With children between about six and twelve, the private family tour is built for exactly that age, and the two small groups above are the lower-priced middle ground. With teenagers, any of the small-group tours will do.

On the day

Bring every child’s passport or ID card. Arrive 15 minutes early at the meeting point. Backpacks to the cloakroom, pram with you, water bottles under half a liter, baby food in the bag. If you leave by the Lanzi staircase at the end of the short route you cannot get back to the cloakroom from inside, so if you checked a bag, do not take that exit.

If the private family tour fits your children’s ages, check availability for your date and party size; before you go, read what to expect at the Uffizi and check opening hours and free days, since free first Sundays cannot be reserved.