Rome: Private Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel Tour

With your licensed local guide, you will cut through the famously long waits and enter the Vatican Museums at the Vatican Partner Entrance, giving you more time to admire the unmatched artistic treasures of this extraordinary collection.

You will be able to look for sights that interest you most, stay longer in areas rich with detail, and ask any questions you might have thus making sure to take full advantage of your guide’s extensive knowledge about the Vatican.

This tour includes the Gallery of Maps with its finely gilded ceiling Raphael Rooms among many others.

Here famous artworks will sit next to neglected relics medieval maps and ancient sculptures each with a story of its own before heading to where the real jewel of the Vatican lies: the Sistine Chapel.

In this famous place, your guide will share more about Michelangelo’s amazing paintings on the ceiling, showing little details that are often missed, like the painful punishments shown for his foes and the private message he wrote for the Pope.