Florence, Galleria Dell'Acaddemia free admission to Italians in AIRE

I'm also a dual citizen registered with AIRE at the Municipality of Florence (the city of my last residence in Italy).

I didn't know but I'm glad to know. I knew about the other categories getting a free pass (like scholars and University teachers), but did not know that we Italians residing abroad have the right to free admission.

Incidentally the same applies to the Uffizi, I just check their website, and we have free admission there too. Stupid me that I've always paid, even after I moved to the US many moons ago.

If you have an Italian passport, you should see on the page next to the one with your photo the City (State) of residence, for example San Francisco (CA).

That is sufficient proof that you are and Italian registered with AIRE (Anagrafe Italiani Residenti all'Estero, or Registry of Italians Residing Abroad). In any case the website also states that you can also provide an 'Dichiarazione Sostitutiva di Certificazione' (self affidavit).

Which Italian City are you registered with with AIRE?

Roberto, I am registered in AIRE from Civitanova Del Sannio, in Molise. Thank you for mentioning the passport, yes, of course mine has my US residence, so that should be enough for documentation. Great to know. When I looked at the ticket website for the Uffizi, there was a link to the discount requirements, in small print, and that list didn't include citizens in AIRE. But, from your link I clearly see it (in both Italian and English!). So, maybe I'll go ahead and buy that ticket for myself, and a full price one for my husband who is not an Italian citizen.

Have you ever purchased the 5 day pass? I think it will be our best option to give us flexibility during our stay. I've read elsewhere that the Accademia will probably take less time to visit than Uffizi, so I think it makes more sense to schedule that for our first full day, and save the Uffizi for the morning of the second full day when we hopefully have more energy.

Roberto - I just got a little more info from a FB dual citizen group. Apparently Italians in AIRE get free (discounted?) entry to all of the State run museums in Italy! There was some discussion about whether just the passport with the US residence was enough (some felt that only says where your residence was at time of passport) so I went on to FASTIT and saved my record to PDF, I'll have both available if requested. Someone in the group had just used this discount for Florence 5 day pass, booked online a month ago, so I'm very excited to try it. I'll report back after our trip.

Never had a 5 day pass, also the last time I visited the Accademia (or the Uffizi) was several years ago.

The Uffizi is big and even 3 hours wouldn't be enough to see everything. But I belong to the Italian critic Philippe Daverio's school of thought, according to whom one should concentrate only on a few art pieces when visiting a museum rather than try to see everything, just like one orders only a few dishes at a restaurant and not the entire menu. Therefore I never spend more than a couple of hours even in larger museums, and concentrate in the few things I care to see.

Accademia is small and I wouldn't spend more than 30-45 minutes inside. But if you are a Michelangelo's admirer and a true art buff, you can stay also 2 hours and examine every square inch of the David.

Regarding the record, the PDF is good to have also. But I would think that the Italian passport saying you are resident in the US and your current US driver's license would be plenty to show you are currently residing abroad.

I agree about the passport and drivers license, but it was a good chance to make sure I could still access my FASTIT account and didn't take long to download the pdf so I should have all bases covered :)
I like your approach to museum visits, also my husband who is perfectly happy to see the art, also said he's not likely to last more than a couple of hours in any given day. I'm not quite sure we'll get the full use from the 5 day pass, but since my cost will be only 4 euro, it's worth it just to have the option of visiting the other sites and we won't feel like we need to stay too long to get our money's worth!