Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel Skip-the-Line Guided Tour with St. Peter's Basilica

Enter the Vatican Museums with priority access
alongside an art history guide

Meet your guide at the ItaliaTours lounge near the Vatican Museums and enter without waiting in the long ticket line. Your guide leads you efficiently through the vast museums, focusing on the highlights for about 2 hours. The tour is held in English.

See the Raphael Rooms and ancient sculptures

Walk through the former papal residence and visit the Raphael Rooms, the ancient Greek and Roman works of the Belvedere Courtyard and the Gallery of Maps. Your guide explains how works from ancient Greece and Rome inspired the artists of the Renaissance.

Admire Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel

The focus of the tour is the Sistine Chapel. Learn about everything from the chapel's commission to the ceiling completed by Michelangelo Buonarroti, and hear the story of how Michelangelo, who considered himself a sculptor rather than a painter, painted frescoes on a ceiling 13 m high. Your guide also separates fact from the fiction of popular films.

Choose St. Peter's Basilica or free time in the museums

After the Sistine Chapel, you can enter St. Peter's Basilica with priority access and explore on your own for about 30 minutes, or stay in the museums and see the remaining galleries at your own pace. The tour ends at St. Peter's Square.

※ St. Peter's Basilica cannot be visited on Wednesday mornings during the papal audience.
※ The itinerary may change depending on local conditions.