Vatican Museum & Sistine Chapel Fast-track entry Tickets
Overview
Mobile ticket
Explore the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel at your leisure and avoid the long lines with this skip-the-line admission ticket. This self-guided tour is ideal for those who want to take their time and not be restricted by a guided tour. Save time with fast-track admission, browse the galleries at your own pace, and visit the magnificent Sistine Chapel at a time that suits you.
• Skip-the-line entrance: avoid the long queues and head straight inside
• See magnificent artworks by Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and Bernini
• Self-guided tour: spend the entire day exploring the museums
Additional Info
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation Policy
All sales are final. No refund is available for cancellations.
What‘s Included
Fast-track Admission to Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel
Professional Guide
Food & Drinks
Gratuities
Pickup & drop
Meeting and Pickup
Meeting points
End points
This activity ends back at the meeting point.
What To Expect
Vatican Museums
The Vatican Museums public entrance is infamous for its incredibly long lines. This fast track tickets allow you to bypass the general admissions line and enter much quicker and increases your time inside the Vatican by eliminating all the needless waiting around outside. Once you have your ticket, you’ll be able to wander off and explore the museums at your own leisure. Established in 1506 and created as the private Museums for the popes, containing over 70,000 works which are housed in thousands of rooms, this museum has something for everyone, from Egyptian, Sumerian and Ancient Roman artefacts to Renaissance, Baroque and even contemporary works. The highlight of the Vatican Museums is, without a doubt, the Sistine Chapel. Located at the end of a network of galleries, this Renaissance chantry is impressive. Frescos surround you from almost every angle, works by Perugino, Ghirlandaio and Botticelli cover its lower walls, and Michelangelo’s pieces dominate the altar wall and ceiling.
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Vatican Museum & Sistine Chapel Fast-track entry Tickets
Reviews
12 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Our kind guide accompany us until the entrance of the museum and she be sure everybody have been entered. The instractio
113mpp,
May 19, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Our kind guide accompany us until the entrance of the museum and she be sure everybody have been entered. The instractions were very systematic and well organised.
Run away
Syan F,
Jul 3, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
1.00Terrible experience. The operator changed the entry time from the morning to the afternoon with no notice, and when we arrived he hadn’t updated his staff of the change. We had to wait in a hot office for an hour for them to fix it, and by the time we had stood in the hot afternoon son for another hour we barely had the time and energy to see the highlights. Do not waste your money on this excursion.
Vatican and chapel, superb!!!!
babettedemo,
May 4, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00The Vatican and its church, superb places of worship, you will be amazed, there are several museums, but above all they have rooms where the ceilings, the paintings are magnificent, above all book your tickets, we waited in line ( wire cut with ticket) 35 minutes otherwise it's 3 hours. On the other hand, we didn't take a guide and that was good, we stayed inside for 3.5 hours. We finished with St Peter's Basilica which is free and outside, it's really magical, if you can do it, do it!!!! 2 hours in line but especially pay attention to the closing time, several people queued for nothing.
Unparalleled Exemplary Customer Service !!!
SlickDC,
Oct 11, 2023
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00I expected a long wait after arriving at the Vatican and Sistine Chapel. The Viator contact (Rahman) was punctual and friendly and within minutes connected my friends and I (3 ppl) access to join an escorted/guided tour. best 2.5 hours ever spent alongside an informative and well versed guide on Roman History. What an amazing surprise this was and the unexpected blessing of joining an escorted tour! Best customer experience ever by Viator. Bravo
Amazing art
Passport14582237332,
Sep 12, 2023
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Got the skip the tickets and We walked around by ourself. the museums and art were amazing. Highly recommend.
We were emailed that we...
Robert W,
Aug 18, 2023
- Review from Viator
1.00We were emailed that we needed to pick up our tickets at the business site. That our paper we had was only a voucher to turn in for the real tickets, We went to the business address provided twice Aug 15th and Aug 16th . We were not told it was a holiday, The place of business to redeem our voucher for tickets was closed. Found someone to call the number provided and no one answered. Did not get to see the Sistine Chapelr. A competing business around the corner informed us that they hadn't sold tickets for the 16th because Sistine Chapel was closed. We feel ripped off basically.
A must visit place
pushkars538,
Jul 31, 2023
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00A Must do visit location when in Italy. Huge collection of art and crafts. Vatican City tours helped to skip the line and have easy access
Tickets cancelled
strandvejen280,
Jun 15, 2023
- Review from Tripadvisor
1.00You cancelled our paid visit, you cancelled the same morning at day we have booked😱 We went from Copenhagen to Rome for seeing The Sistine Chapel. I think it is absolutely unforgettable. Expect an compensation. Marianne Rawlins
Be careful of Viator’s 3rd party sources
sence p,
Apr 9, 2023
- Review from Viator
2.00Viator’s outsourcing of our “skip the line visit” landed us in the hands of a 3rd party who was unorganized, rude, late and dismissive. The day prior to our Vatican visit, he reached out to change the time of our visit to once which was impossible to meet. We then reached out to Viator to confirm the change and the meetup spot to be assured our original time was still possible. The day of our visit, the 3rd party reached out again, confirming the time and changing the meeting point. When he finally arrived to the meeting point, he motioned to us to follow him then took off quickly and disappeared into a small store front. After a great deal of negotiation with the business owners over a period of 30 minutes, we were finally granted entry to the Vatican, but not before the business owner admonished us for booking so late (we booked 10 days prior) and telling us we were lucky to have got a spot because two people cancelled at the last minute. Overall, it was a stressful experience not knowing until the last minute if we’d make the tour or not (despite it being paid and confirmed) because of the confusion caused and being told ‘the only reason we made it was because of the cancellation.’
Double price to skip the line
Peter N,
Jun 7, 2022
- Review from Viator
2.00High cost just to "skip the line". According to the reservation we should meet at the agency at 12 PM. We expected that our entrance to the Vatican museum would start shorty agter. We got informed that 12 PM was just the meeting time at the agency, and our entrance would be at 1.45. After the arrival at the agency 1.45 we walked to another guide agency, to pick-up further tourists. Waited for these tourists to get ready, and went as a group to the Vatican museum. The two groups skipped the line, and then waited for the guides to purchase ordinary tickets at 17 eur. It seems that we paid double price, just to skip the line, and that the agencies did not have a scheduled timeslot for our entrance at the museum.
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