Last Supper Tickets Sold Out — What Actually Works

The official calendar for the Last Supper is grey for your dates. This is the normal state of that calendar in season, not a sign you did something wrong: the museum admits 40 people per 15-minute slot and releases tickets in three-month blocks that peak-season buyers clear within hours. Here is what still works, in the order worth trying.

The short version: book a guided tour with the ticket inside — 4.7 from 10,626 visitors, from about $86 — and stop refreshing. The rest of this page is for people who want to try the official routes first.

1. Wednesday at 12:00 — the weekly top-up

Every Wednesday at 12:00 Italian time the museum releases a small extra allocation of tickets for the following week, online only, five per order. It is the one official mechanism designed for people who missed the block. The allocation is small and it goes fast; be logged in to Vivaticket at 11:55 with your dates and party size ready. If your visit is more than a week away, this does not help you yet — put it in the diary for the right Wednesday.

2. Cancellations on the official calendar

Tickets are named and non-transferable, so people who cannot travel do sometimes cancel, and the slot reappears on the official calendar. There is no waiting list and no alert; the only method is refreshing at unsociable hours. Third-party guides report that cancellations resell “within minutes”. Worth a few tries the week before, not worth building a trip around.

3. The call centre

+39 02 92800360, up to nine tickets per booking. It occasionally has availability the website does not show, and it is the only official route for parties of six to nine. Italian office hours; expect to wait.

4. Groups of ten or more

Parties of ten to thirty book by email as a group (the museum routes this through its education partner). If you are travelling as a family reunion or a school, this is a real door — with a lead time.

5. A guided tour that includes the ticket — the route most people end up taking

Licensed Milan operators hold group reservations and sell them as guided visits. On the platform the calendar for these is frequently open for dates when the official calendar is empty, including next-day. You are not buying a loose ticket: you go in with the guide, in the guide’s slot, in a group of up to forty, for the same fifteen minutes. The most-booked one meets in front of the ticket office and includes the ticket, a licensed guide and headsets.

The tours that include the ticket

What does not work

• Turning up at the door. There is no walk-up queue; every visit is a prepaid, named reservation.
• Buying someone else’s ticket. Online tickets cannot be renamed and ID is checked against the name.
• Free first Sundays as a loophole. They exist, but the free places are booked online in the same scramble as paid ones.

If you are in Milan today with no ticket

Check the tours calendar for the next 24–48 hours first — that is where the realistic availability lives — then refresh the official calendar for a cancellation while you wait. Either way, when you do get a slot, be on the square 30 minutes early; the museum forfeits late arrivals.

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