A gold-ground mosaic apse with robed figures in procession
1,840 members · 212 of them since 1990

Join the wall

A card, a key to the study room and the year's four openings. Membership pays for two works a year and the person who cleans them.

Amica€45
Sostenitrice€120
Patrono€600

Three cards

All three run twelve months from the day you buy them, all three let you in free, and none of them has a joining fee. The difference is how much of the back of the building you get to see.

Amica€45a year · €4 a month if you prefer
  • Free entry, any day, no booking
  • One guest free on Thursdays
  • The printed catalogue of each show
  • 10 % off in the bookshop
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Sostenitrice€120a year · two names on one card
  • Everything in Amica, for two people
  • First booking on the study room
  • The store tour, last Friday, no charge
  • Openings, with the keeper who made the show
  • The conservation report for every work we clean
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Patrono€600a year · tax-deductible in Italy
  • Everything in Sostenitrice
  • A vote at the acquisitions meeting in November
  • Your name in the register, if you want it there
  • The building to yourself, one evening a year
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The carved and gilded corner of an ornate picture frame, raking light across the gesso
The frame that came off the Branca in February. Regilded here, not sent away.
Two hands turning the pages of a large open volume under a single lamp
The accession registers. A members’ Wednesday, pencils only, no ink.

What €120 actually buys

Last year membership raised €161,400. Of that, €74,000 went to the acquisition fund and bought the Rolfi; €52,000 paid two thirds of the conservator's salary; €21,000 relit Sale IX to XI; and €14,400 kept the study room open on Wednesdays. The board publishes the full figure every March and it is pinned to the wall by the desk.

See what the fund has bought since 1962

Three of the eighteen hundred

A woman standing close to a painting in a quiet gallery room
Member since 2016

I come on Thursdays after work and sit in Sala II for twenty minutes. It is cheaper than anything else that does that to me.

Giulia Pandolfi · Sostenitrice
A man standing before three empty gilded frames on a dark wall
Member since 2003

I joined for the store tour and stayed for the November meeting, where I have been outvoted eleven times and right twice.

Davide Ruscelli · Patrono
A visitor with an audio guide looking closely at a dark landscape
Member since 2024

My daughter is nine and the card gets us both in. We have a rule: one room a visit, and she picks it.

Hanna Keresztes · Amica
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We answer within two working days. Cards are posted, not emailed; the first one takes about a week.

The columned front of the museum in low sun, seen from the Via Cavour side
The Via Cavour side, where the ramp is.
A marble group of three carved figures standing close together

Give one away

A card in somebody else's name, dated from whenever you like. We will write the name on it by hand, because the machine spells everything wrong.

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