...or reservations. Being unsure of whether we needed to reserve with our Friends of the Uffizi membership, i e-mailed the museum and asked them. The answer: no reservations, no lines for ANY of the state museums in Florence, we just show up and walk in. cost: 25E if you are under 26, 60E for an individual and 100E for a family of up to 4. I'll report back on how well it worked next month.

Here's the link should anyone want it: http://www.amicidegliuffizi.com/index.php

Do you need to pay entrance fee in addition to your membership?

no entrance fee and the membership is good for a year.

See replies on your other thread.
http://www.fodors.com/forums/threads...p;tid=34868414

Click on your own screen name to find your previous posts.

thanks, kybourbon. i saw the other threads, but they did not answer my questions, so i checked with the museum, as i mentioned, and then wanted to post what seemed to me to be a worthwhile way to see the museums without hassle, so i posted under a new heading. Should i have done it differently?

How many state museums are there? Is this practical for the average visitor?

here is the link to the list of state museums, but the majors are all there- Accademia, Bargello, Pitti Palace etc. http://www.polomuseale.firenze.it/english/musei/

For the record, I went at Christmas 2 years ago and made a reservation. We could have walked right in. I would advise anyone going in the off season not to bother.

well, september and october are still high season, and Sept 23-24 is FREE museum weekend, so there will undoubtly be crowds

drm1418 - did you end up getting the membership? And if so, did it work out well?

My family will be in Florence for a week in July/07 and would love to be able to visit museums as the mood strikes us instead of being tied to timeslots. And the family price seems quite reasonable, especially when I add up the cost of visiting several museums over the course of a week.

thanks, a

Do you still need reservations for special tours? Did you go in a seperate entry? Thanks for this post.

Jane

yes- we got the membership and it worked out very well - there were huge queues for several of the museums and we simply walked up to the entrance for people with reservations and passed the line there(albeit, a much shorter line), went directly to the security points, flashed our passes and went in. i'm not sure what Jane means by "special tours"; we did hire a private guide for the uffizi(he had his own pass) and didn't require reservations for that, either.