transactional 8 min read
Albertina Tickets, Prices and Opening Hours
Updated September 18, 2026
An adult ticket to the Albertina costs EUR 20.90, under-19s go free, and one admission covers the Habsburg state rooms, the permanent collection and every temporary exhibition running — there is no supplement for the headline show. The museum is open daily 10:00 to 18:00 and until 21:00 on Wednesdays and Fridays.
This page is the ticket mechanics: every price category, the passes, the combo arithmetic and when to book. What is actually inside is on the Albertina guide.
Every price category
Read from the museum’s own ticket shop on 18 September 2026.
| Ticket | Price |
|---|---|
| Adult | EUR 20.90 |
| Seniors 65+ | EUR 17.50 |
| Visitors under 26 | EUR 17.50 |
| Children under 19 | Free |
| Vienna City Card holders | EUR 18.90 |
| Visitors with disabilities | EUR 7.00 |
| Smartphone guide | EUR 5.00 per location |
| Annual membership | EUR 78.00 |
The under-19 rule is the one worth planning around. Children and young people under nineteen are admitted free to Austria’s federal museums, and the Albertina applies it — which, together with the Imperial Treasury’s identical policy, makes those two the cheapest serious museums in the complex for a family.
What the EUR 20.90 actually buys
More than the equivalent ticket at most museums of this size, and this is the fact that decides whether it is good value.
The Albertina does not sell separate exhibition tickets. One admission covers the state rooms, the permanent collection and whatever temporary shows are running — and two or three major shows usually run at once.
Compare that with a museum charging a base admission and then eight or ten euros for the headline exhibition, and the difference is real money. Here the headline exhibition is the admission, and you are never choosing between shows on price.
Is entrance ever free?
For under-19s, always. For everyone else, no — the Albertina does not run a general free-admission day, and searches suggesting otherwise are usually confusing it with a museum that does.
Two things get close. Visitors with disabilities pay EUR 7.00. And the Vienna PASS includes the Albertina outright among its sights, so a pass holder walks in without paying at the desk.
Which pass covers it
Three different answers, and they are not interchangeable.
The Vienna PASS includes the Albertina among its listed sights — free entry rather than a discount. Whether the pass itself pays depends on how many attractions you can realistically visit in a day; our break-even page works it out with real door prices.
The Vienna FLEXI Pass also lists it.
The Vienna City Card does not include entry. It discounts the adult ticket to EUR 18.90 — a saving of two euros — because it is a transport ticket with a discount book attached rather than an admission product. Our City Card discounts page sets out what it saves across the whole complex.
The Albertina is one of the few Hofburg-area museums that appears on all three, which makes it a reliable inclusion when you are weighing a pass.
The combo ticket, and whether it pays
There is no two-house Albertina plus Albertina Modern ticket. The only combination the museum sells covers all three of its locations.
| Combo ticket, all three locations | Price |
|---|---|
| Adult | EUR 29.90 |
| Seniors 65+ and under 26 | EUR 24.90 |
| Under 19 | Free |
The three are the Albertina at the Hofburg at EUR 20.90, Albertina Modern at Karlsplatz at EUR 17.90, and Albertina Klosterneuburg at EUR 9.00.
The arithmetic: the two city houses bought separately come to EUR 38.80, so the combo saves EUR 8.90 and throws in a third house. On paper it is obvious. In practice Klosterneuburg is outside Vienna and a visitor on a short trip will almost certainly not reach it — but the EUR 8.90 saving on the two you will do still stands on its own, so buy the combo if you intend both and treat the third as a bonus you probably will not collect.
If you are only doing one house, buy the single. Our comparison page helps you pick which.
Opening hours
Daily from 10:00 to 18:00, and until 21:00 on Wednesdays and Fridays.
Those two late evenings are worth building a day around. They are the quietest hours in any museum in central Vienna, a busy exhibition that had a queue at two in the afternoon is empty at eight, and almost nothing else in the first district is open for serious looking after dinner time.
It also means the Albertina is the natural end of a Hofburg day rather than a competitor for the same morning: the palace route from 09:00, the Treasury before lunch, and this from six.
Do I need to book in advance?
Usually not. The Albertina is large enough to absorb walk-ups and it does not run timed entry in the way some Vienna sights do.
Two exceptions. A blockbuster temporary exhibition in its final weeks can produce a real queue — check the museum’s own programme before deciding. And if a specific drawing is your reason for going, check it is actually on display first: works on paper cannot be permanently shown, so Dürer’s Young Hare and the rest of the famous graphics spend most of their lives in storage and appear in rotation, with a labelled facsimile often standing in.
That check takes two minutes and prevents the single most common disappointment here.
Where it is, and getting in
The Hofburg’s southern tip, above the Burggarten, raised on the old Augustinian Bastion with its own terrace and entrance at Albertinaplatz 1. You can reach it from the Imperial Apartments without crossing a road.
Note that it is a separate operator from the palace museums, so the EUR 20 day ticket does not touch it — one of seven independent ticket operations inside the complex, which Hofburg Palace Tickets sets out in full. The full price table for everything at this address is on our Hofburg ticket prices page.