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Members' benefits

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Members enjoy priority booking and discounts across our programme. Plus, you can access special offers in our Shop, cafes and restaurants.

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.

Join or renew     Buy as a gift

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.

Join or renew    Buy as a gift

 

Membership cards can't be posted 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.

Ticket discounts and priority booking

Our members enjoy 20% off tickets for themselves and a guest for many of our events. 

For events we programme, there's usually a limited number of discounted tickets available for Members. For Cinema screenings, there's no cap on Members' discounted tickets. Sometimes, on guest events brought to us by other producers, we aren't able to offer a Members' discount. You can check whether a Member discount applies by checking the 'Ticket prices' section on our event pages.

 

An exciting benefit of Barbican Membership is having priority access to book tickets. 

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. We anticipate that this benefit will be popular for our upcoming productions.

Members' ticket discounts can't be used on top of other offers, for example Cinema's Magic Mondays or Pay What You Can.

Your Membership discount applies automatically on Standard tickets and will show up in the checkout, just make sure you're logged in.

If your discount isn't applying to an eligible event, it's likely that we've already sold out of our discounted Members' tickets.

Check our full T&Cs.

Discounts and offers

Our offer codes and links are shared in our Welcome email that we send to you when you sign up to Membership. To access our offers in-person, you'll need to show your physical or digital Membership card. You can find your digital Membership card by logging into your Barbican account and selecting 'Membership'.

Members' Lounge
Enjoy two of the same cocktails for £17 between 5-6pm at our daily happy hour. On Mondays, happy hour lasts all evening.

Barbican Shop
Enjoy a 15% discount in our Shop or online. Every purchase helps to support our work. Excludes already discounted items. 

Barbican Kitchen and Cafés 
Members get 10% off their bill. Please show your Membership Card (physical or digital) at the till. This offer can't be used on top of any other offers or special menu promotions.

Barbican Bar & Grill
Members get 10% off the bill. Applies to Member and up to three guests only, whether the bill is being split or being settled by the Member. Can't be used on top of any other offers.