Museum guides
Before you go: which languages the labels are in, what the official audio guide offers, the photo rules and Wi-Fi, each checked against the museum's own pages.
All guides
- Amsterdam museums: booking, free entry for children and opening days
- Athens museums: free days and opening hours
- Budapest museums: free days and Monday closures
- Florence museums: free first Sundays and Monday closures
- London museums: free entry, booking and late openings
- New York museums: free hours and closing days
- Paris museums: free first Sundays and closing days
- Rome museums: free first Sundays and Monday closures
- Tokyo museums: free days, closing days and photo rules
- Turin museums: free days and closing days
- Venice museums: free first Sundays and closing days
- Vienna museums: free entry and opening days
- Audio guide languages, museum by museum
- Photo rules, museum by museum
- How to read museum labels in your language
- Acropolis Museum Athens · Free digital guide; Wi-Fi in all public areas
- Belvedere Vienna · Audio guide in 12 languages at the Upper Belvedere; time-slot tickets
- British Museum London · English-only labels; audio guide in 8 languages
- Budapest History Museum – Castle Museum Budapest · No audio guide in the ticket list; English group tours; open daily
- Doge's Palace Venice · Venice's Gothic seat of power, the Bridge of Sighs and the prisons
- Galleria dell'Accademia Florence · Audio guide in 7 languages; book to avoid a long wait
- Galleria Borghese Rome · Audio guide in 6 languages; booked 2-hour visits
- Hungarian National Gallery Budapest · Audio guide in 6 languages; photos allowed; free cloakroom
- Hungarian National Museum Budapest · Hungarian labels, English on many; no audio guide
- Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna · 10-language audio guide, free Wi-Fi in the galleries, 12 Bruegels and the Kunstkammer.
- Louvre Museum Paris · French and English labels; audio guide in 9 languages
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York · English labels; free official audio guide on your phone
- Capitoline Museums Rome · Audio guide in 5 languages; labels in Italian and English
- Museo Egizio Turin · Free web audio guide in 3 languages; tickets online only
- Museum of Ethnography, Budapest Budapest · Audio guide for two galleries only (hu, en, de); free Wi-Fi
- Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest Budapest · Audio guide in 9 languages for about 120 works; photos allowed
- National Archaeological Museum Athens · Phone audio guide in 6 languages; Tuesdays open at 13:00
- National Gallery London · Free entry on Trafalgar Square; personal photos allowed, no flash
- National Museum of Indonesia Jakarta · No audio guide on the ticket page; free volunteer tours in English; closed Mondays
- Natural History Museum London · Free entry in South Kensington; personal photos allowed, no flash
- Musée d'Orsay Paris · Audio guide in 10 languages; Wi-Fi in some areas
- Museo Reina Sofía Madrid · Audio guide in 3 languages, 7 on Guernica's floor; free evening hours
- Rijksmuseum Amsterdam · Free audio tours in 11 languages; free Wi-Fi
- Tokyo National Museum Tokyo · Japanese and English labels; free audio guide in 4 languages
- Uffizi Galleries Florence · Audio guide in 8 languages; plan on mobile data
- Vatican Museums Vatican City · Audio guide in 12 languages; no Wi-Fi