Why Art Tickets?
Art Tickets is a free online ticketing system designed to be as straightforward to use as possible.
Saves you time and money
Improves your visitor experience
Reach new audiences with free promotion for your events and exhibitions
Get to know your audiences better with sales and audience data
Receive more donations with auto top-ups
Try it out
See how Art Tickets could work for you by signing up for a trial which allows you to have a go at setting up events and tickets in an exact replica of the live system.
Making ticketing simple
Goodbye clunky software, hello easy ticketing. Art Tickets has simplicity at its core – it’s both easy to use and intuitive, helping you upload events with different requirements.
In My Art Fund on artfund.org you’ll find everything you need to manage your tickets in one place. And with support on hand from the Art Fund team, getting started is easy.
Manage tickets for multiple venues and spaces
Take bookings online and over the phone
Set up promotional offers and take Gift Aid donations
Manage visitor and email subscriber lists
Manage on-the-day visiting with automated daily lists
Process refunds and exchanges
Quickly resolve any technical issues with our online helpdesk
Seamless customer experience
Art Tickets has been designed for museums, with museums – ensuring that your needs are met to give your visitors the optimum customer experience.
Online ticketing gives visitors more flexibility, allowing them to book anytime, anywhere and your organisation will reap the benefits of easy ticketing too. Benefits of Art Tickets for you and your customers:
Utilise an easy-to-use ticketing system
Have your own Art Tickets page with a unique URL
Promote your events to thousands of culture seekers on artfund.org
Easily add your organisation’s logo and imagery
Create a smooth booking journey for visitors
Issue accessible e-tickets for mobile use
Integrate with the ticketing application Smartify
Insightful reporting
You can monitor ticket sales, track your income and step-up your marketing with Art Tickets. From downloading reports to building email subscriber lists, these handy features are all in one place – gain valuable insights into your audience with Art Tickets to help shape your future plans.
Produce reports for varied events and/or time periods
Add email addresses directly to your subscriber list
Track your income with financial reports
Use Audience Agency’s Audience Finder to get to know your audience
How you can get started with Art Tickets
01. Sign up for a trial
See how Art Tickets could work for your museum by signing up for a trial. We just need a few details to get you set up and then you will have access to an exact replica of the live system.
*Please note we are not currently accepting new applications for Art Tickets trials, please email museums@artfund.org if you need any information or support*
02. Join the network and set up your account
If you decide to use Art Tickets you will automatically become a partner in the National Art Pass network. Click here to read more about the network and start the registration process.
03. Promote to audiences
Once you are a member of the National Art Pass network, you’ll be ready to start promoting your venue to your visitors. Plus, any events and exhibitions you upload will automatically be promoted to our 135,000 National Art Pass members.
Art Tickets has been revolutionary for a small organisation like ours
Our opening hours are limited, and many of our event attendees are not local to the area so cannot buy advance tickets in person. As a smaller museum staffed largely by volunteers, we were desperately trying to implement online ticketing for our events, recognising that selling tickets online is hugely important – if not essential.
It enables us to connect with a much wider audience online; it has also reduced our behind-the-scenes administration by about 80%. Invaluable.
Admissions pricing policy in museums
In partnership with Arts Council England, Museums Galleries Scotland, the Welsh Government, the National Museum Directors’ Council, and Art Fund, the Association of Independent Museums (AIM) commissioned DC Research Ltd and Durnin Research Ltd to explore current admissions pricing policies in museums and their impact.
The in-depth research report provides a detailed overview of current charging approaches, useful benchmarking data and a range of case studies. There is also an accompanying Success Guide which condenses crucial findings and is designed to help inform you in the process of reviewing their pricing strategies.
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