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Florence with kids: things to do

By Ramya ChinnaduraiPublished 13 October 2026Updated 13 October 2026

On Autolinee Toscane, a child rides free only until their 11th birthday, and only when an adult is with them. If you board with more than one child under 11, only one of those children is free. That limit sits on the Italian page, not in a rumour. Count tickets before you tap. Uffizi, Museo Galileo, MUS.E, Feel Florence and the Boboli page supplied the museum figures. Those sites were opened on 13 October 2026.

The 90-minute urban ticket, and the second child

Autolinee Toscane states the free ride to the 11th birthday with an adult. The Italian wording is the one that caps the free children at one. Everyone else in the party needs a ticket. Urbano Capoluogo covers tram and urban buses for 90 minutes.

That 90 minutes is enough for a hop from the station to the river or a later ride out to a garden gate. It is not an all-day pass. If you will ride, walk, ride again after lunch, budget another ticket or walk the centre.

Do not assume the second child under 11 is free because the first one is. Buy the extra fare.

Free under 18s at the Uffizi, with an adult rule under 12

The Uffizi free-and-reduced page is clear. Under 18s of any nationality enter free with ID. Children under 12 visit with adults. Take the ID. Do not argue at the door with a screenshot.

Free is not the same as short. The rooms are long. Walk in with one corridor in mind and walk out. Under 12s still need those adults beside them, so splitting up to cover more rooms only works if each group still satisfies the rule.

Museo Galileo as the hour built for hands

Museo Galileo lists Monday and Wednesday to Sunday 09:30 to 18:00, and Tuesday 09:30 to 13:00. Closed 1 January and 25 December. Full price 14 euros, ages 6 to 18 pay 7 euros, under 6s free. The family ticket is 32 euros for 2 adults plus 2 children, or 1 adult plus 3 children.

Tuesday closing at 13:00 is the trap. If Tuesday is your science morning, arrive at 09:30. The 32 euro family ticket is the sum to use when the household matches 2 plus 2 or 1 plus 3. Under 6s are already free on a standard ticket, so a lone preschooler with 2 adults may be cheaper as separate tickets than as a family bundle. Do that arithmetic on the posted bands, not on a guess.

Instruments and globes hold a 6-to-18-year-old longer than a palace fresco. That is why this museum sits on a family page at all.

Palazzo Vecchio: kits from 6, activities from 4, tower as a separate ticket

MUS.E's Palazzo Vecchio page listed 18 euros full, 12 euros reduced for ages 18 to 25, and 0 euros under 18. The tower is 20 euros full and 13 euros reduced. Typical hours are 09:00 to 19:00, Thursday 09:00 to 14:00. The ticket office closes 1 hour early.

MUS.E family activities start from age 4 and need a reservation. The Family Kit starts from age 6. Book those, then treat the painted halls as the wrap-around, not the other way around. Under 18s already pay 0 euros for the palace, so the kit and the activities are the extra you plan, not a ticket you forgot.

Thursday closing at 14:00, plus a ticket office that shuts 1 hour early, makes Thursday a morning-only palace. Do not aim for a late tower climb that day.

The free kit at the infopoint, and Bottega from 3

Feel Florence hands out a free Firenze for Families kit covering 80 or more spots at the infopoints. Bottega dei Ragazzi at the Istituto degli Innocenti starts from age 3. Use the kit for the walks between ticketed rooms. Use Bottega when you have someone who has turned 3 and needs a workshop, not another corridor.

Feel Florence also repeats the MUS.E note: family activities from age 4 by reservation, Family Kit from age 6. Two official pages saying the same age bands is the confirmation.

Boboli: last entry, closed Mondays, no porcelain

Boboli Garden takes last entry 1 hour before closing. It closes on the first and last Monday of the month and on 25 December. There is a baby pit-stop near the Amphitheatre. The Porcelain Museum is closed.

The pit-stop is the reason a baby day can live in the garden at all. The closed porcelain rooms are the reason you should not promise that museum. First and last Mondays are garden-closed Mondays: pair those days with Galileo (open Monday, short on Tuesday) or with Palazzo Vecchio, not with Boboli.

A first visit that does not punish anyone: one free under-18 interior (Uffizi or Palazzo Vecchio, not both at full length), Galileo if you want objects to touch with the eyes, Boboli only on a day it is open and with last entry in mind, and the Firenze for Families kit in the bag. Buy the second under-11 a bus ticket. Florence is already expensive enough without discovering that rule at the validator.

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