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Priority Ticket Museums + Sistine Chapel
Explore the Museums and the Sistine Chapel without a guide. A formula to compare first for a last-minute visit.
Vatican Museums Map
There is not one Vatican Museum but a complex of Vatican Museums. It is one of the largest museums in the world, housing an extensive collection of paintings, sculptures and objects from Antiquity, Ancient Egypt and the Renaissance.
The visit to the Vatican Museums includes the Sistine Chapel and its famous ceiling, painted by Michelangelo.
There is no ticket to visit only the Sistine Chapel.
To access the Sistine Chapel, you must buy an entry ticket for the Vatican Museums and then walk 1 km, at the shortest distance, inside the museums (≈30 min) to reach the chapel entrance.
The Vatican Museums span 3 floors: the Ground Floor, the 1nd Floor and the Basement.
Most museums are located on the ground floor, as is the Sistine Chapel, while most galleries are on the first floor, and the basement houses the Philatelic Museum and the Carriage Museum.
Rooms of the Vatican Museums
The Vatican Museums welcome more than 6 million visitors per year and offer a route of 7 km of rooms and corridors. Booking a ticket in advance is highly recommended to secure entry during your visit to the Vatican, as daily ticket quotas are often filled by advance bookings.
The entry ticket to the Vatican Museums gives you access to these sites:
- Sistine Chapel
- Borgia Apartments
- Raphael Rooms
- 5 Galleries :
- Lapidary Gallery
- Braccio Nuovo
- Candelabra Gallery
- Tapestries Gallery
- Geographical Maps Gallery
- 12 Museums :
- Pinacoteca
- Modern Religious Art Collection
- Pio-Clementino Museum
- Ethnological Missionary Museum
- Gregorian Egyptian Museum
- Gregorian Etruscan Museum
- Gregorian Profane Museum
- Christian Museum
- Vatican Apostolic Library Museum
- Carriage Museum
- Chiaramonti Museum
- Philatelic and Numismatic Museum
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Entry Ticket Museums + Sistine Chapel
The same access on a self-guided tour, on a slot reserved in advance. Compare to benefit from a lower price if your date is flexible.
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Guided Tour Museums, Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica
Discover the Museums and the Sistine Chapel with a guide, then St. Peter's Basilica: three sites combined in one guided tour.
Next dates recorded on 4 November at 6:45 (Rome time). The final price depends on the day, time slot and number of participants: it is confirmed before payment.
Where is the entrance to the Vatican Museums?
It is possible to access the Vatican through 2 entrances.
The Viale Vaticano Entrance provides access to the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel. It is located in the north of Vatican City.
The Via della Conciliazione Entrance is the one located on St. Peter's Square, east of the Vatican.
Map of the 2 entrances to the Vatican
Map of the Vatican and Rome
Interactive map of Vatican City and the surrounding city of Rome: