Rome: Vatican Museum & Sistine Chapel Skip-The-Line Tickets
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Take a stirring journey through art and religious history with skip-the-ticket-line entry to the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel. Avoid the long ticket lines and enjoy your visit at your own pace. Wander through the Greek Cross Gallery to see elaborately carved sarcophagi that might just contain the earthly remains of some of antiquity's famous kings and queens. Peek at the Cabinet of the Masks, or tour the Sala degli Animali to see a virtual menagerie of fantastic beasts, real and imagined. Walk the Upper Galleries, including the Gallery of Maps, to see how cartographers depicted the world through the ages. See masterpieces by Renaissance masters in the Raphael Rooms, and rest in the Borgia Apartments for a while. Then, it’s time to marvel at Michelangelo’s exquisite Sistine Chapel, the crown jewel of the Vatican, and perhaps even of all the world’s art treasures.
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The Vatican Museums are the public museums of Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection amassed by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries, including several of the most well-known Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world. The museums contain roughly 70,000 works, of which 20,000 are on display and currently employ 640 people who work in 40 different administrative, scholarly, and restoration departments.
The Sistine Chapel is a chapel in the Apostolic Palace, the pope's official residence in Vatican City. Originally known as the Cappella Magna the chapel takes its name from Pope Sixtus IV, who had it built between 1473 and 1481. Since that time, the chapel has served as a place of both religious and functionary papal activity. Today, it is the site of the papal conclave, the process by which a new pope is selected. The fame of the Sistine Chapel lies mainly in the frescoes that decorate the interior, most particularly the Sistine Chapel ceiling and The Last Judgment, both by Michelangelo.
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- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(157)
It is hard to find the starting place but there are a lot of guys selling tickets to see the Vatican so I got directions from them. ,The museum takes at least 2 hours and is full, full, full of art and history. Also, I found it nerve wracking on both my Viatar tours to get my tickets at the last minute. A street seller helped me to find it on my phone.
Switched time by 45 mins and not a skip line at all was connected to a tour. Over priced do not recommend
It is stunning. They will give you a guided tour with a lot of information. Be prepared for a long walk.
Our guide was very informative and the experience was amazing. However, it was hot and there were lots of people. But in all, it was a great experience.
Fraud, rubbish site, the meeting place was like a market, no representation from the company at all, just a crazy mess of people, no information, just a joke. Then my bank blocked my credit card because this company has a red alert on it. Totally lost the day and the money. Unacceptable.
Skip the line was great but we lost our tour guide straight away, we got stuck behind some people on the escalator on the way up as it was very busy, by the time we got to the top, the group was gone and we couldn’t find them. We spent 1 hour trying to find our guide. We ended up having to pay for some audio headset. Disappointed we were not waited for as we were only a couple minutes behind. I understand the place was busy but I seen other tour guides wait for the group at multiple stops.
It can happen on busy occasions
You, in fact, WILL NOT skip the line! After downloading the voucher, the seller has to send you another ticket….you have to stand in another line to retrieve another ticket.. then stand in line for your audio headset. The tour guides, while very polite, don’t allow much time for you take pics as they are on limited time to herd everyone through the museum. Oh and should you receive your ticket BEFORE arriving to the meeting point (had to request it once we got there) , please be aware of the dress code/rules for the Sistine Chapel. We feel like $175 for two tickets was wasted.
You in fact skipped the line. Otherwise, you would have spent 5-6hrs outside just before getting inside.
Huge museum before you get to the Sistine chapel, well worth a visit, really can’t do the ceiling of the chapel justice, it’s just fabulous. Also the map room is awesome & the room we called the ‘globe room’! Skip the line is a relative term!, your put in a line with others with the same time ticket & then all go in together so although it says be there 15 mins before your ticket time that’s just the que for your actual time and then it was probably around 20 mins after that we actually got in but it was well organised and I would def recommend.
Glad to hear the positive attitude on the busy season
The skip the line tickets are overpriced. We paid over 50-75 euros extra per person for skip the line with a guide tickets only to not have a guide in the end and have to navigate the museum ourselves.
Last-minute tickets are always expensive for the museum.
Fantastic way to see the Colosseum with a specialist guide in a small group. Gentle pace and very informative.
