Skip-the-Line Ticket: Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel

Start an amazing journey through one of the best art collections in the world with this ticket that lets you skip the lines at the Vatican Museums.

Avoid the long queues and get instant entry into a storehouse of history, art, and culture that goes on for centuries.

Your ticket gives you the right to explore the museums at your own pace, making lots of time to see the masterpieces that have shaped both fields of art and religion.

Your self-guided tour begins with direct entry into the Vatican Museums, skipping the main entrance line.

As soon as you arrive, you will take a carefully designed path through the museums' most famous sections, starting with the Gallery of Maps, where intricely detailed frescoes depicting cartography adorn te walls showing Italy’s geography as envisioned in the 16th century follows.

The Gallery of Tapestries and the Gallery of Candelabra fill extraordinary works of Renaissance art and sculptures from antiquity.

The Raphael Rooms, four sumptuously decorated chambers painted by Raphael and his workshop, will be a major highlight of your visit.

You are to see them as living quarters for Pope Julius II.

The frescoes here illustrate theologies, philosophies, and justice—one of the most famous works from the Renaissance period: "School of Athens." As you wend your way through lesser-known but no less fascinating galleries in this museum, take outside in the vast collection of classical sculptures, Etruscan artifacts, and Egyptian mummies.

There will be tranquil courtyards reflecting moments for contemplation where you can stare at elaborately coffered ceilings and mosaic floors.

The visit ends with the stunning Sistine Chapel—the crowning work of Michelangelo—in which "The Creation of Adam" coupled with "The Last Judgment" leave indelible impressions on all who pass through its doors.

In this chapel, silence speaks volumes toward sanctity; it provides a fitting climax to your experience.

This means you can spend more time enjoying the amazing collection at the Vatican and less time waiting in line.

If you are an art lover, a history fan, or just a curious traveler, this experience lets you explore the treasures of the Vatican Museums in your own way and at your own pace.