Serralves tickets: €24 for the museum, villa and park, and the €15 late-afternoon ticket

💡 The Short Version: The general ticket is €24 and covers the museum, the Álvaro Siza Wing, the park with its Treetop Walk, the Art Deco villa and the House of Cinema. The park alone is €15, and so is the late-afternoon ticket for the museum, park, villa and cinema, Monday to Thursday from 17:00 with last admission at 18:00. The free first Sunday of the month is for residents of Portugal only. Buy at serralves.pt or at the gate. Or book a tour: Serralves sells no guided visit to individuals, so GetYourGuide carries only the foundation’s own general ticketad, at the same €24.

Tickets and prices

Prices are the foundation’s own, from serralves.pt, per person. Tickets are sold online on its ticketing site and at the gate. Sites with the foundation’s name in their address are resellers.

• Residents’ prices (€20 general, €12 park and late afternoon) are for people who live in Portugal, at the box office only, with a Citizen Card or residence card. The free first Sunday of the month is the same.
• Combined tickets: Casa da Música and Serralves €28.80, and the Torre dos Clérigos and Serralves €27.20.
• Groups with a guide pay their own rate and must book.
• The late-afternoon ticket costs the same as park only and includes the museum, the villa and the cinema as well.

Where to buy

GetYourGuide’s prices are its lowest “from” prices. Its Serralves listings are the foundation’s own, at the same prices.

Tours worth paying for

Serralves offers no guided visit to individual visitors; groups with a guide book their own. These two listings are the foundation’s tickets. Prices are GetYourGuide’s lowest “from” prices, per person.

Serralves Foundation all-access pass

From €24 · valid on the date you choose · 4.5 stars from 601 reviews

Porto: Serralves Foundation All Access Passad is the general ticket, listed by the Fundação Serralves, valid on the selected date during operating hours, so you can enter at any time. The listing says it is wheelchair-accessible. Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

Serralves Park entry ticket

From €15 · 4.4 stars from 141 reviews

Porto: Serralves Park Entry Ticketad is the park-only ticket, at the foundation’s own €15.

What to see

Allow half a day for the general ticket: about an hour for the museum, an hour for the villa and the cinema, and an hour for the park and the Treetop Walk. Go in this order, and spend the last hour outside.

The Serralves Villa from the formal garden. Photo: Joseolgon, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. The Museum of Contemporary Art. Álvaro Siza designed it, and it opened in June 1999. The galleries run in a U shape round a patio, so the park shows through the windows. It stages temporary exhibitions and holds the foundation’s collection.
2. The Álvaro Siza Wing. A three-floor building in the park for the Serralves Collection and exhibitions on architecture, which added 44% more exhibition space. It is part of the general ticket.
3. Serralves Villa. An Art Deco house of the 1930s that belonged to Count Carlos Alberto Cabral. The interior carries work by Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann (the dining room, hall and salon), a René Lalique skylight and a wrought-iron gate by Edgar Brandt. The foundation’s restoration was overseen by Siza.
4. The park. 18 hectares laid out by the landscape architect Jacques Greber in the 1930s: formal gardens, woodland and a traditional farm, with about 200 plant species and sculptures from the Serralves collection on permanent display.
5. The Treetop Walk. An elevated walkway close to the tree canopy, built in 2019 and included in the park ticket.
6. The House of Cinema Manoel de Oliveira. In the general and late-afternoon tickets; it screens films, so look at the programme.

An avenue in the Serralves park, with the villa at the far end. Photo: Joseolgon, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What to skip: the park-only ticket on a Monday to Thursday afternoon, when the €15 late-afternoon ticket adds the museum, the villa and the cinema.

Practical information

• Where: the Serralves Foundation, in the Boavista district.
• Hours, April to September: Monday to Friday 10:00 to 19:00; Saturday, Sunday and holidays 10:00 to 20:00.
• Hours, October to March: Monday to Friday 10:00 to 18:00; Saturday, Sunday and holidays 10:00 to 19:00.
• Getting there: the Metro to Casa da Música, then STCP bus 504 from the station, or buses 201, 502 or the Metrobus from the Boavista roundabout. Bus 201 runs from Aliados and bus 207 from Campanhã to the Serralves stop.
• Programme: the foundation runs concerts, performances and workshops, listed on its site.
• The one thing that ruins a visit: arriving on a Monday to Thursday after 18:00 for the late-afternoon ticket. The last admission is at 18:00.

For the other half of the combined ticket, see the Torre dos Clérigos. Porto’s museums compares Serralves with the rest on price and closed days. Porto’s viewpoints lists the free gardens, and what to book in Porto has the closed days for every sight. For somewhere to stay in Boavista, see where to stay in Porto.