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Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel tickets - SKIP THE LINE
The ticket for the Vatican Musuems includes the entrance into the Sistine Chapel.
The chapel can be visited as last step of your tour inside the museum complex.

Address: Viale Vaticano, Vatican City, Rome
Opening hours: from Monday to Saturday, from 8:30 am to 6:00 pm.
Last entrance time 3:00 pm.
Closing: Sundays and religious holidays.
Entrance can be booked every 30 minutes.
On-line reservation fee 6,50 euros per ticket.

VATICAN TICKET REDUCTIONS
HALF VATICAN: children aged between 6 and 17 years old; students under 26 years old on presentation of a valid International Student Card or a student identity document on the day of the visit.
Children under 6 years old do not need any reservation nor any entrance ticket.
Please note: Vatican Museums tickets are non-refundable in any case. For cancellation policy or change of dates please CLICK HERE!

You want to book a tour with guide in English, please visit our VATICAN TOUR page!

Vatican Museums & Vatican Gardens, choose the correct ticket

It is possible to purchase a ticket at a reduced price for children aged between 6 and 17 years old. It is also possible to purchase a ticket at a reduced price for students 18-25 years old on presentation of a valid International Student Card or a student identity document on the day of the visit.

Children under 6 years old do not need any reservation nor any entrance ticket.
Disabled people (over 74% disability with certification) do not need any reservation.

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IMPORTANT NOTICE From 28 April 2025 the Sistine Chapel will remain closed until the end of the Conclave. The Vatican Museums remain open and visitable. The tickets issued cannot be modified, canceled or even partially refunded.

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The best way to book Vatican Tickets when visiting Rome is by Italy Travels. Italy Travels is a tour operator specialized in on-line ticket and tour reservation for the most important museums in Italy.
If you book in advance Vatican Tickets, you will be able to enter the Pope's Museums jumping the long external line. The waiting time outside the Vatican entrance is generally more than two hours and for this reason very tiring. The Papal Museum complex presents an exposition of works of art displayed along seven kilometre galleries. Above all the marvellous Sixtine Chapel.
Vatican tickets can be easily booked on-line through the website Ticketsrome.com. Once the order is submitted and payment procedure completed, a confirmation voucher will be sent by email. This voucher must be printed out and presented at the Museum ticket office to get inside.

Vatican tickets can also be combined with an audio guide in English language or in another language of your choice. The audio guide can be booked on line too, together with the Vatican tickets. In this way visitors will be able to jump the line twice, at the Vatican entrance and at the audio guide desk.

Another interesting way to tour the Papal Museums in Rome is joining a guided group tour. Vatican tours in English language are available every day and last about 2 hours. Finally, the Vatican Tours always include skip-the-line Vatican tickets. Vatican Tours last about two hours and include the main sections of the Vatican State Museums.
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For most demanding visitors, we suggest you to book a Vatican Tour with private guide. In this case, Vatican tours last around 3 hours and include the exclusive guide service and jump the line Vatican tickets. The standard itinerary of Vatican Private Tours include the main sections of the Vatican Museum and ends inside the Sistine Chapel. The itinerary of the Vatican Private Tour can also be customized according to the visitors preferences.
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The Pope Museums: what to see. Useful Information

The Papal Museums are located in Viale Vaticano in Rome.

They are situated within the boundaries of the Vatican City. These museums collet a large quantity of art works. Therefore they are one of the most visited museum complex in the world.

This immense collection was amassed by popes during centuries. For this reason, the pope’s museums house art treasures from antiquity to contemporary times.

This complex covers a very large area. Visitors can walk from one Vatican palace to another for hours. Artworks are displayed along more than 7 kms galleries.

The Vatican State Museums are divided into several sections.

First of All, the Gregorian Egyptian museum which collects Egyptian works, statues, mummies, funerary stelae, jewels and so on. This collection is the third most important Egyptian museum in the world.

The Pio Clementino Museum is dedicated to classical period. It collects statues and artworks from the Greek to the Imperial Roman age. The Octagonal court is part of the Pio Clementino museum. This place is very famous due to the presence of the Laocoon sculpture.

The Raphael Rooms are surely one must-see attraction of the Papal museums. They are entirely decorated by Raphael’s frescoes. Pope Julius II commissioned this work to Raphael to embellish his personal apartments.

The well-known fresco is the School of Athens.

Finally visitors will fall in love with the Sistine Chapel. The holy chapel walls and vault are fully painted with marvellous masterpieces. Many master painters worked at the chapel decoration. Above all Michelangelo who painted the Last Judgement which spans the wall behind the altar. The vault of the Sistine Chapel was decorated by Michelangelo as well. In this imposing fresco, Michelangelo represented scenes of the Old Testament. In the centre of this amazing work, there is the Creation of Adam. Millions of tourist come to the Vatican every year just to admire this breathtaking artwork.