Vatican Museums Guided Tour – Top Edition with meeting point

Choose the best Vatican Museums guided tour and explore one of the most famous art collections in the world with your exclusive reserved access! Ticket Only (if available) for Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel

3.5 hours
Mobile & printed vouchers accepted
Free Cancellation
Fully refundable when canceled up to 24 hours prior to departure.

Highlights

  • Exclusive reserved access to the Vatican Museums
  • Pigna Courtyard
  • Pio Clementino Museum
  • Chandelier’s Gallery
  • Tapestries Gallery
  • Raphael’s Rooms
  • Sistine Chapel and Michelangelo’s The Final Judgement
  • St. Peter's Basilica (guided tour only)
  • Easy-to-find meeting point
  • Limited to 20 participants

Includes

  • Preferred entrance tickets
  • Professional guide
  • Wireless audio headsets

Excludes

  • Optional gratuities
  • Transportation

Please Note

  • Please note: It is mandatory to bring your passport or valid ID card on the day of the tour.
  • The meeting point is in Piazza del Risorgimento at the Bar Caffetteria L’Ottagono, 400 meters from the nearest subway stop Ottaviano.
  • This tour ends in St. Peter's Square.
  • This tour visits religious sites, and there is a dress code to be observed. Visitors must be dressed appropriately: no sleeveless blouses, no miniskirts, no shorts, and no hats are allowed.
  • By purchasing this tour, the customer agrees to follow only the guide assigned to him/her. It is not permitted to add external guides to the group after the tour has been purchased. We inform our customers that, in such circumstances, access to the Vatican Museums will be granted only if escorted by the assigned guide and respective group. If one chooses to opt out, they will forfeit all rights to the tour and ticket, with no possibility of a refund.
  • For the issuance of Vatican Museums tickets, providing a first name and surname is mandatory. Without this information, the ticket cannot be issued. It is also mandatory to bring your passport on the day of the tour.
  • Please note that the Vatican Museums and St. Peter's Basilica are active places of worship. Therefore, some areas may be subject to sudden closures without prior notice. We will not be held responsible for such closures.
  • Cancellation Policy
From 24h before service date or no-show: 100% penalty (1 day)

Restrictions

  • This activity is not suitable for wheelchair users

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Ms Shannon Steuart
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November 26, 2024
Our tour guide (her name escapes me, but she was from Belgium and an art history major) was phenomenal. She was organized, friendly and full of fabulous insights and anecdotes. My friend and I would take a tour with her again.Thank you,Shannon Steuart
a Gray Line customer
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November 11, 2024
We had very great tour with Elisa guide, who provided interesting insights and facts on the top of main information about museum, sculptures, paintings, maps and history. I had 2 kids with me, who also were excited and even asked additional questions. Visited main museum spots and also chapel and St.Pet Basilica. Good value for money tour which I can recommend!
Wang
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October 7, 2024
The tour was helpful for speeding up and skipping the line even though we had to wait for a while to enter. The tour guide was friendly, knowlegeble and warm, I had some trouble to understand her English. I hope with time, she can improve. The audio was also difficult from time to time due to static. The museum has too many visitors, hard to enjoy or take photos. Overall, it's worth the trip to the museum.
Mr Michael OSBORN
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September 29, 2024
It was great. Nice explanations of various antiques, paintings , our guide was very knowledgeable. It would appear expensive but you get your 3.5 hours worth. Thanks again
Mr Siva Govender
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September 25, 2024
Really enjoyed the tour.
a Gray Line customer
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September 18, 2024
Absolutely perfect. Wonderful guide and very well organized.
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November 26, 2024
Image with Rate from Ms Shannon Steuart
Our tour guide (her name escapes me, but she was from Belgium and an art history major) was phenomenal. She was organized, friendly and full of fabulous insights and anecdotes. My friend and I would take a tour with her again.Thank you,Shannon Steuart
reviewed by Ms Shannon Steuart
November 11, 2024
Image with Rate from a Gray Line customer
We had very great tour with Elisa guide, who provided interesting insights and facts on the top of main information about museum, sculptures, paintings, maps and history. I had 2 kids with me, who also were excited and even asked additional questions. Visited main museum spots and also chapel and St.Pet Basilica. Good value for money tour which I can recommend!
reviewed by a Gray Line customer
October 7, 2024
Image with Rate from Wang
The tour was helpful for speeding up and skipping the line even though we had to wait for a while to enter. The tour guide was friendly, knowlegeble and warm, I had some trouble to understand her English. I hope with time, she can improve. The audio was also difficult from time to time due to static. The museum has too many visitors, hard to enjoy or take photos. Overall, it's worth the trip to the museum.
reviewed by Wang
September 29, 2024
Image with Rate from Mr Michael OSBORN
It was great. Nice explanations of various antiques, paintings , our guide was very knowledgeable. It would appear expensive but you get your 3.5 hours worth. Thanks again
reviewed by Mr Michael OSBORN
September 25, 2024
Image with Rate from Mr Siva Govender
Really enjoyed the tour.
reviewed by Mr Siva Govender
September 18, 2024
Image with Rate from a Gray Line customer
Absolutely perfect. Wonderful guide and very well organized.
reviewed by a Gray Line customer

Itinerary

Explore the marvels of the Vatican Museums on this amazing preferred entrance guided tour! No need to worry about the long queues outside the museum, as your reserved access ticket will allow you to get inside before any other group and begin your guided tour led by your guide.

Your trip to the Eternal City will never be complete without a visit to this unique site, which is home to 54 galleries that include 4 statue museums:
  • Museo Pio Clementino
  • Museo Chiaramonti
  • Museo Gregoriano Etrusco and
  • Museo Gregoriano-Egizio


Get charmed by Michelangelo’s outstanding Sistine Chapel and Last Judgement, visit the extraordinary Raphael Rooms and get your fill of the stories behind the famous “School of Athens”, walking along the same hallways walked by some of the most famous artists in the world: Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio, Giotto, Raphael, and Michelangelo, to name a few.

We awakened the art lover inside you, didn’t we?

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Pickup Info

Meeting Point:Please be at the meeting point 15 minutes before the beginning of the tour. The meeting point is in Piazza del Risorgimento, in front of L'Ottagono Bar. Meet our staff recognizable by the Gray Line - I Love Rome logo (pink colour). Your expert guide will start explaining from the square. Please note: It is mandatory to bring your passport or valid ID card on the day of the tour.

Gray Line - I Love Rome office:
via Leone IV, 33 (6:30 AM – 6:30 PM 365 days)
[email protected]
0039 06 474 2501 (from November to March Monday-Saturday 6:30 AM – 7:00 / PM Sunday 6:30 AM – 8:15 PM)
From April to October 6:30 AM – 9:00 PM
0039 348 8112027 (Whatsapp only)