Vatican Museums Sistine Chapel: Skip-The-Line Guided Tour

This tour will let you see some of the most famous masterpieces known far and wide.

We offer a time-and-space-traversing experience that immers you in history and culture while moving quickly so that you do not have to wait in exhausting lines.

Certified Vatican tour guides lead every group, taking you through the artistic treasures housed within seven different museums at the very heart of the Vatican Museum complex.

In a comfortable and casual atmosphere, your guide will begin to relate stories and interesting details that bear upon understanding the historical, artistic, and cultural contexts of where the great works in the Hall of Muses; Pio-Clementine Museum; Gallery of Maps; Gallery of Tapestries; Raphael Rooms; and beautiful Courtyard of the Pinecone sit—right in the middle of Vatican City.

The tour will end with a visit to the Sistine Chapel, in which speaking is not allowed; your guide will give explanations and directions outside, using the special panels supplied by the Museums.

You will see inside some paintings that epitomize the zenith of Italian Renaissance art-exquisite frescoes by Botticelli, Perugino, Pinturicchio, Ghirlandaio, Signoretti and Piero di Cosimo- beside Michelangelo's extraordinary vault cycle and Last Judgment.