How to Book Free Sunday Tickets for The Last Supper in Milan

A step-by-step photo guide with tips on how to book free tickets to see Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper wall painting in Milan on Sunday.

Admission is free to see Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper painted on the wall of the refectory of the Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery church in Milan on the first Sunday of each month. These free tickets are only available online and the time-slot reservation procedure is easy but highly competitive. Below is a step-by-step guide with photos and screenshots of the booking process.

Top tips on how to reserve free Sunday Last Supper tickets and time slots:

• Create an account in advance.
• Become familiar with the booking process in advance.
• Log in to “buy” free tickets exactly at noon (Italian time) on the Wednesday preceding the free Sunday.
• Select tickets and be prepared to split into smaller groups to get a free timeslot — tickets go fast.
• Second change: some tickets may again become available around 20 minutes past the hour.
• The odd ticket may become available around a further 20 minutes later but may be snapped up in seconds.
• Regular admission-only tickets may be available in the same week but use a different booking calendar, while normal guided tours are bookable months in advance.

→ See How to Get Free Tickets for The Last Supper in Milan for booking tickets on any day for children under 18 and €2 tickets for EU youths.

Reserve Free Sunday Tickets for The Last Supper

Anybody may try to reserve tickets to see The Last Supper painting in Milan for free on the first Sunday of each month. All time slots are available and as the number of visitors is exactly the same as on any other day, free Sundays are a great option to view this famous wall painting.

Free Sunday tickets for The Last Supper Museum are:

• only available online from the Museum website,
• a maximum of five tickets per account,
• no guided tours,
• full names must be added at the time of booking and may not be altered.

Create a Free Account to Buy Last Supper Tickets

It is a good idea to create an account to reserve time slots to see The Last Supper in advance. The account is of course free but requires a surprising amount of details and it is easy to miss some things when doing it in a hurry.

At the Cenacolo Vinciano Museum website, find the EN English button if necessary. (It is at different positions depending on the browser and window size — sometimes at the bottom of the menu items.)

From “Visit” find any “Buy” option. “Login” or “Register” will be an option at the top of the screen.

Complete the details — there may be an email verification check in the process. Be careful of the following options:

You have to click “Information Acknowledgement” and the second option “Consent to the processing by Vivaticket” for the account to work. Helpfully, in Italian (!), a red warning informs you what information is still missing.

(I foolishly also agreed to “receive email communications” — the first advertisement arrived only three hours later. The request to unsubscribe was honored, despite the warning that it could somehow take up to seven days.)

The second list you don’t have to agree to unless you want to receive a lot of advertisements and offers:

With the account ready — it may be done months in advance, or while trying to reserve the tickets, but earlier certainly is easier, and agreeing to advertisements in error is less likely when not in a rush.

Basic Last Supper Museum Tickets Booking Process

Tickets for free Sundays are available from noon Italian time on the Wednesday preceding the free Sunday. Knowing the process beforehand is worth the small effort — tickets will be booked out in minutes.

At the Cenacolo Vinciano Museum website, find the EN English button if necessary. (It is at different positions depending on the browser and window size — sometimes at the bottom of the menu items or hidden with the ITA option.)

From the “Visit” link, the available ticket options are listed. the correct option for free Sundays is “Special Entry Days” not “Are you entitled to a free ticket?” or “Are you a single visitor or a family group?”.

The next free visit date for The Last Supper will be listed:

In this case, it is Sunday the 2nd of February.

The booking option is only available during the official booking period that precedes the free day. The above message may appear — in this case four minutes before noon, but it also appeared a few times while trying to book tickets. A refresh may bring dates back if available.

Be Ready to Book Free Last Supper Museum Tickets at Noon Sharp

A few seconds after noon and I’m in: the only date available on this booking engine is of course Sunday 2 February 2025:

Click on the date and there are tickets available for any of the time slots all day!

I grab three test tickets for 16:30:

I’m logged in, three tickets confirmed for 16:30, and totally free, not even a service charge.

As I’m not planning to book or use the tickets, I haven’t completed the personal details of the three visitors. It is essential to supply the details during the booking process. In contrast to regular “Last Supper” tickets, it is not possible to change names later. (Don’t sweat minor spelling mistakes but it is essential that the name of the visitor and not the buyer appears on the ticket.)

You have 20 minutes to complete all the details and confirm the booking.

IDs or passports will be checked at ticket collection — see What to Expect When Visiting The Last Supper Museum for details. The process is exactly the same on free Sundays.

How Fast Do Free Sunday The Last Supper Tickets Sell?

Tickets in cart, I decided to log in on a different browser to monitor how fast the free The Last Supper tickets “sell”.

At 12:08, I found myself in a three-minute waiting queue to reach the booking website:

At 12:10, less than two minutes later, I’m back in, and still many tickets available:

But if you have a group of four, only eight options are left.

The first attempt to reserve some gives the following message but a back click and the second attempt restored options:

At 12:14, only three times remain available. Now is not the time to be picky!

At 12:19, the 13:45 time slot reappeared! (This is already the second round, see below!)

At 12:21, all free Sunday tickets for The Last Supper Museum are taken. But there is still hope!

Get Free Tickets in the Second Round

It is worth hanging around a bit later than 12:21 in the hope that a few tickets might be returned. The 13:45 time slot, which was “sold out” at 12:15, suddenly reappeared at 12:19.

Any tickets added to carts where the transaction was not completed, will automatically become available after 20 minutes unless the buyer canceled earlier, as in the 13:45 slot.

At 12:25 no time slots are available, but “my” three tickets are due to go back on sale soon!

My cart has expired, chance missed!

At 12:27, at least five of the time slots have tickets

12:29: the odds are even better now with 11 times slots having tickets including “my” 16:30 three!

At 13:33, all free Sunday tickets for the Last Supper Museum on 2 February are gone!

12:53: I kept my browser window open, by luck more than planned, but at 12:53, the 17:30 time slot suddenly became available. Taking a screenshot first, it was gone by the time I clicked the time to see how many tickets were available.

Alternative to Book Free Sunday Last Supper Tickets

It is of course always worth checking if any free tickets become available but it is highly unlikely after the first two rounds. February is probably not the most popular month either and free tickets are likely to be booked even faster in many other months.

I was somewhat surprised to see that regular, admission-only tickets were easily available for any day in the first week of February. No tickets at all were available later in the month or for any day in March or April. (Guided tours were still easy to book but more expensive.)

It is often the case that tickets for The Last Supper are easier to buy in the following week or couple of days than a month or weeks in advance. Resellers may return tickets when it becomes obvious that they failed to sell all tours.

However, using this as a planning strategy is very risky for visitors having only very limited opportunities to visit Milan. During the high season, which is most of the year for The Last Supper, guided tours are usually the only way to ensure entry to the painting on a specific day months in advance.

→ See How to Buy Tickets to See The Last Supper Painting by Leonardo Da Vinci in Milano for a more detailed description of options.

→ See What to Expect When Visiting the Last Supper Museum for a rundown on the procedure when visiting alone or in a group.

A visit to the Last Supper Museum takes around an hour. Pick up tickets half an hour earlier than the reservation time. Then queue up at the actual museum entrance and enter with the timeslot group. It is impossible to catch up once the doors are closed. The entire group has 15 minutes with Leonardo’s masterpiece. Photos are permitted.

Nearby Milan Sights Worth Exploring

Sights within a few minutes of walking from the Last Supper Museum in Milan include:

• Admission to the adjacent church of Santa Maria della Grazie is free but opening hours are much shorter than the museum. The exterior of the church is more impressive than the interior.
• Visit the Free San Maurizio Church — endless Renaissance frescoes in the “Sistine Chapel of Milan” — it is a short stroll in the direction of the Duomo.
• Visit the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana to see Leonardo Da Vinci’s Musician Painting and the Codex Atlanticus with his drawings and designs.
• Visit the National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci
• Milan Duomo Complex is a 15-minute walk or a short tram ride away.