Vatican Museums Skip-the-Line Guided Tour

Witness the splendors of the Vatican Museums without those endless waiting hassles by using our special skip-the-line tickets.

Learn much about the great past and exquisite art that go into making the Vatican Museums amongst the most valued in the world.

This entire tour has been carefully crafted to give a thorough look at ‘the enormous ‘collections of the museums, ’ and conducted by our Vatican-certified expert guides.

A brief introduction to the Vatican Museums and the materials they consist of.

It’s correct to say a word “museums” in the plural form as it well represents multiple specialized collections within that huge complex.

We will start at the Art Gallery.

Renaissance masterpieces abound, and there’s work by Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio…the list goes on and on.

This part often helps many find artistic wealth that has greatly changed how art history goes on.

Our guides will share with us stories about these works– how they did it and what inspired these famous artists.

We’re also going to the Egyptian Museum; it’s packed with things from the days of the Pharaohs.

There’ll be neat mummies, detailed hieroglyphs, and nice statues that bring to life long, long ago.

Just next door to the Etruscan Museum, it will really help show what’s in there-and it might even lift some of the mystery about that strange Etruscan culture, visitors will find out about daily life, religion, and art in ancient Rome.

Much is made about these ‘relics’-what they inspired and how important to Roman culture.

It is juxtaposed with what is ‘new.’ Surely things are quite different in a Museum of Contemporary Art that includes works by Matisse and Van Gogh.

This stuff shines a really interesting light on how art has changed but is still reflective of human experience and adds to it.

A good guide will give background info on artistic movements and influences for these creators who link old with new art.

After this the part Classical and Greco-Roman Antiquities lets you see sculptures and relics from old Rome and Greece.

These lasting works, like the famous Laocoön Group and Belvedere Torso, show the splendor and taste of these ancient cultures.

Through their artistic achievements one can find out about the mythology, politics, and daily life of those times.

For special lovers, for unique collections the Philatelic and Numismatic Museum give a unique angle on history all due to rare treasures from all over the world.

On the other side Ethnological Museum shows relics from many cultures around the globe to stress how far across human history the Vatican typically reachesand engages with it.

They give an interesting view of how much influence t heVatican had across varied societies.