Benefits
Membership £59
Benefits you'll enjoy all year:
- Get the seats you want with priority booking.
- Free entry to all exhibitions.
- Save 20% on tickets for you and a guest for many of our events, discounted tickets are limited and subject to availability.
- Pay no booking fees on events sold through our Box Office.
- Get closer to the Barbican with invitations to Members-only events.
- Relax in our Members' Lounge – you can bring a guest, too.
- Save with a 10% discount in our restaurants and cafés, and a 15% discount in the Barbican shops (exclusions apply, including Artists Merchandise such as LSO, The Japanese Gallery, products sold on behalf of visiting companies and sale items).
- Stay up to date with our weekly email announcing priority booking and upcoming events.
T&Cs apply. Check them out in full to find out more.
Membership Plus £114
Make your membership go even further, with all the
benefits of Membership, plus:
- Book even earlier with extra priority booking for our
theatre and classical music season launches. - Free entry to all exhibitions for you and a guest
- Bring three guests with you to the Members' Lounge
T&Cs apply. Check them out in full to find out more.
An exciting benefit of Barbican Membership is having priority access to book tickets. We anticipate that this benefit will be popular for our upcoming productions.
While we proudly offer priority access to our Members, the number of tickets available within any priority booking period is capped for each performance, to enable fair access to tickets for everyone – including the general public.
We can never guarantee that you’ll be successful in booking tickets during the priority period as the allocation may be used up very quickly. There's often a very high demand for tickets from Members, as well as the general public.
Membership cards cannot be sent overseas, but we'll always accept your digital Membership card, which you can find by logging into your account and selecting 'Membership'. We encourage you to choose a digital card where possible instead of a physical card.
Give a year of art, music, film and theatre
They'll enjoy free entry to all exhibitions, discounts, no booking fees, priority booking,, our Members' Lounge and more (T&Cs apply)
See more film for less
Get 20% off tickets and pay no booking fees. Plus, enjoy priority booking and £6 Members’ Screenings of the latest films every Sunday (T&Cs apply)
Donate today
£10 could go towards subsidised tickets to a world-class performance for 16-25 year-olds
£20 could help with covering costs of travel and internet access to support a member of the Young Creatives programme
£50 could fund equipment to run a workshop for a Young Creative and their mentors
£100 could help run Chronic Youth Film Festival, a programme that gives young people an opportunity to develop skills curating and marketing their first film festival
£250 could provide a mentoring session, led by an artist, for a Young Creative
Donations support the Barbican Centre Trust Ltd, a registered charity in England and Wales (no 294282)
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Keep your Membership Card handy in Apple or Google Wallet. Log in, select ‘Add to Wallet’ and enjoy your benefits on the go.
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Terms and conditions
Find our full T&Cs below.
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1. You may cancel your Membership within 14 days of purchase, in line with your statutory cancellation rights. To exercise your right to cancel, you must notify us within this period by emailing [email protected].
If you cancel within this 14-day period:
- Where no Membership benefits have been used, you will receive a full refund.
- Where you have requested us to begin providing Membership benefits during this period, we may make a deduction to reflect the value of the benefits already provided.
Where practicable, any tickets purchased using Membership benefits for events that have not yet taken place may be cancelled and refunded in accordance with the relevant ticket terms.
Any refund due will be processed within 3-5 working days of confirmation of cancellation. We do not offer refunds after the 14-day cooling-off period.
2. We don't allow Memberships to be transferred to a different person. This includes renewed Memberships with a future start date and Gift Membership purchases.
3. You can cancel your automatic renewal by emailing [email protected] before the Membership expiry date. Memberships paid for by Direct Debit renew automatically each year unless you ask us or your bank to cancel your Direct Debit mandate. If you cancel your Direct Debit membership you won’t be able to rejoin on Direct Debit.
4. Discounted membership tickets for music, theatre and dance and art gallery public programme are limited and subject to availability. Discounted membership tickets for cinema are not subject to availability.
5. Some events at the Barbican won’t have priority booking, a membership discount, and/or waived booking fees. For some events, the number of tickets available to Members during priority booking will be capped, to ensure that tickets are available for general sale. Priority booking may be available from third parties such as ticket agents at the same time as Members’ priority booking for certain events.
6. Members get up to two discounted tickets to eligible events, one for themselves and one for a guest. Members can buy up to four more tickets for the event during priority booking, or up to seven more at any other time, but these won’t be discounted. The Member must be present in order for guest tickets purchased using priority booking or Membership discounts to remain valid. Further restrictions may apply for some events, so please check the individual event page. Membership discounts do not apply to already discounted tickets, such as Cinema's Monday Madness or other ticket offers such as multibuys. They can't be used in conjunction with other discounts. You’re not guaranteed access to discounted membership tickets if they’ve sold out.
7. Members get one free ticket to the Art Gallery per day. For Members Plus, it's two free tickets to the Art Gallery per day (one for the member and one for a guest). Membership does not guarantee entry to the Gallery if tickets have sold out. You must show a valid membership card or temporary membership card on entry. Membership does not include fast-tracked Gallery entry. We recommend pre-booking your tickets online to speed up entry.
8. You must show your valid membership card or digital membership card and the credit/debit card used for the booking when collecting tickets in the Centre.
9. Many benefits extend to a guest: places at members’ events, discounted tickets, entrance to the Lounge and free gallery entry for Members Plus. The member must be present for the guest to access these benefits.
10. Members can book up to two tickets to members' events, one for themselves and one for a guest. Sometimes Members can buy more tickets for guests and this will be outlined on the event page. We may return any extra tickets bought so more members can enjoy our events.
11. We have the right to amend or withdraw any benefits or discounted tickets at any time.
12. We have the right to cancel a membership without refund if you break the terms and conditions of membership, ticket sales or entry.
13. You must show your valid membership or temporary membership card to access benefits in the centre including restaurant and shop discounts and access to the Members’ Lounge. The shop discount applies to selected products and the members' purchased items only.
14. Membership is not currently eligible for Gift Aid, but there are other ways to support the Barbican which are. You can find out more here: https://www.barbican.org.uk/join-support/support-us.
15. Membership does not guarantee access to the Members' Lounge in the case of the room capacity being reached.
16. Members enjoy a 10% discount in Barbican Kitchen, Barbican Bar & Grill and cafés. This offer can't be used alongside any other offers or special menu promotions.
17. Members get a 15% discount in our Shops or online. We do not offer discounts on Artists Merchandise such as LSO, The Japanese Gallery or products sold on behalf of visiting companies.
18. The Barbican Centre processes personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. For full details of how and why the Barbican Centre processes personal data, please refer to our full privacy notice.
19. Please be aware that we don't send physical Membership cards to overseas addresses. Members can use their digital cards when visiting the Centre.
