Official Last Supper Tickets: The Real Release Calendar

The Last Supper has exactly one official seller: the Museo del Cenacolo Vinciano, through its own platform at cenacolovinciano.vivaticket.it. Everything else — this site included — either explains that sale or sells guided visits whose operators hold their own reservations.

The museum’s Info page tells you when sales open, and it is worth reading carefully, because it no longer describes what the museum actually does. The published rule is quarterly: “In March opening for reservations: May, June and July. In June, opening for reservations: August, September and October.” What happened in 2026 is that 24 March opened May through August, and 23 June opened September through December — four-month windows, both of them, and June’s did not start in August at all.

The opening month has held for years. The window it covers, and the exact day, have not. Plan from the announcement, not the rule.

The only official shop

The museum sells at cenacolovinciano.vivaticket.it, linked from the Info page on its own site. That subdomain is the whole of the official online channel — there is no second website, no app-only allocation, no partner storefront selling the €15 ticket at €15.

Prices are fixed and published: €15 for adults 25 and over, €2 for ages 18–25, free under 18, plus whatever booking fee the platform adds. Reservation is compulsory for every ticket type, including the free ones and including infants.

This matters because the phrase people search for — official website — has two plausible answers, and only one of them sells you anything. cenacolovinciano.org is the museum. cenacolovinciano.vivaticket.it is the till.

Every release date we can verify

Each block is announced on the museum’s news page a week or two ahead, then opens at 12:00 Italian time. These are the dates as the museum published them:

Three things fall out of that table, and only the first is in the museum’s published rule:

• The opening month is reliable. September, December, March, June — every time, for years.
• The day is not. Most are a Tuesday; February–April 2026 opened on a Wednesday. A rule of thumb that says “always Tuesday” will eventually cost somebody a slot.
• The window has stretched. Both 2026 releases covered four months rather than three. If you are planning around the published quarterly schedule, your dates may go on sale earlier than you expect — which is a much better problem than the reverse, but only if you are watching.

Where that leaves right now: on the published schedule the next opening is due in September 2026, covering November 2026 to January 2027. Going by the last two releases it could run longer. The museum names the day roughly a week ahead on its news page, and that announcement is the only reliable signal — this page states what is published and refuses to invent the rest.

What that means for your dates

Museum prices and rules checked September 2026; tour prices are in the calendar further down this page and move. These are dated figures, not a quote.

Release day: the five-minute drill

The block sells out of good dates in hours, sometimes minutes, so the work is all in the preparation:

1. Create the account days before. Registering during the scramble is how people lose the slot they were watching.
2. Know your exact party names. Tickets are named, and an online ticket cannot be renamed afterwards — not a typo fix, not a substitution. The name is checked against an identity document at the ticket office.
3. Be logged in at 11:55, Milan time, on the page for your month.
4. Five tickets maximum per online order. A party of six to nine has to use the call centre instead.
5. Have a second date in mind. The morning slots on a Saturday are the first thing gone; a Tuesday afternoon in the same week is the same painting, the same fifteen minutes, the same forty people.

The three official channels

The email address for groups is published on the museum’s own tickets page. We deliberately do not reprint it here: it has changed at least once, and a stale address in a guide is worse than no address.

If you missed the block

Three official fallbacks, in order of odds — and then the one most people actually use:

1. Wednesday at 12:00. Extra tickets for the following week, online only, five per order, individual visitors only. This is the mechanism worth setting an alarm for, and it is covered in detail in what actually works when tickets are sold out .
2. Cancellations. They reappear on the official calendar with no waiting list and no alert. Worth a few looks in the week before; not a plan.
3. The call centre. Occasionally holds what the website does not show.

If none of those lands, a guided tour that includes the ticket is the remaining route — the operator’s reservation is the product, and their calendars are frequently open for dates the museum’s own page shows as empty.

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The rules that forfeit a ticket

These are the museum’s own, and it enforces them:

• Arrive 30 minutes early at the ticket office (via Fratelli Ruffini), then be at the museum entrance 15 minutes before your slot. Late arrivals forfeit the ticket; there is no refund. This is the most common way a hard-won ticket is lost.
• Bring the identity document matching the booking name. Online tickets cannot be renamed.
• No large bags. Lockers at the ticket office are small and limited (30 × 45 × 32 cm and a few larger), and there is no re-entry once you leave.
• No food or drink, and phones must be silenced and are not to be used along the route or in the refectory.
• No flash and no video inside the refectory; personal photographs without flash are tolerated. Professional shoots need written authorisation in advance.
• The visit is 15 minutes for a maximum of 40 people. The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday, 8:15–19:00, last admission 18:45, closed Mondays, 1 January and 25 December.

The tours that include the ticket

Licensed Milan operators hold their own group reservations and sell them as guided visits, with headsets — the museum permits guided visits only with audio guides. You enter with the guide, in the guide’s slot, for the same fifteen minutes in the same room of forty.

The honest comparison, for anyone weighing €15 against these: the tour is not a better view of the painting. It is a reservation somebody else already secured, plus a guide for the fifteen minutes. If you can get the official ticket, get the official ticket. The full price arithmetic is here , and whether the guide is worth it is a separate question with a genuinely mixed answer.

How we know this

Everything above is the museum’s own, checked in September 2026:

• The quarterly opening schedule, the Wednesday 12:00 weekly top-up, the €15/€2/free prices, the five- and nine-ticket caps and the ten-to-thirty group range: the Info page at cenacolovinciano.org .
• Every dated row in the release table: the museum’s individual block announcements on its news page — including the 24 March 2026 opening for May–August and the 23 June 2026 opening for September–December, which are what contradict the published quarterly rule.
• cenacolovinciano.vivaticket.it as the official shop: the outbound booking link on the museum’s own Info page.
• The 30-minute rule, the named-ticket and identity-document requirements, the bag, photography and phone rules, and the 15-minute / 40-person session: the museum’s published Regulations for access and use.
• Tour prices, ratings and review counts: this site’s own offers data, refreshed from GetYourGuide on 3 September 2026.

Where the museum publishes something precisely, this page repeats it precisely. Where it does not — the exact day of the next opening — this page says so instead of guessing. That distinction is the whole point of a booking guide.

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