Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel Tour with Ticket

NOTICE: The Sistine Chapel will be shut to visitors from April 28, 2025, because of the Conclave and will stay closed until further notice.

So, this tour will only be for the Vatican Museums.

The guided tour will move as planned and give a full 2.5-hour look at the fine rooms and galleries in the Vatican Museums.

Take a trip with a guide in Rome to find some of the best works from the Greco-Roman time and Renaissance art kept in the Vatican Museums.

This comes with skip-the-line entry tickets.

Go into the Vatican Museums through the fast entrance, missing out on the long line for tickets.

The trip starts in the Yard of the Armor, where you can see the Vatican Gardens, then moves on to the Yard of the Pine Cone, found among old papal buildings.

Visitors will move through a number of rooms in the Belvedere Palace, which was the Pope’s summer home and now holds the Pius Clementine Museum with famous pieces of Greco-Roman art like Apollo Belvedere and Laocoön Group.

After this, the visit goes on through the three Galleries that lead to the papal apartments: the Gallery of Candelabra, the Gallery of Tapestries showing works from the Flemish workshop of Peter Van Aelst, and the Gallery of Maps decorated with frescoed images of Italian land ordered by Pope Gregory XIII.

The tour will conclude with two of the indisputable highlights of the Vatican collection: Raphael’s Rooms in the apartment of Pope Julius II and the Sistine Chapel, in which in addition to other works by Michelangelo great masterpieces are to be seen—scenes from the Book of Genesis and The Last Judgement.