Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel Skip-the-Line Tickets + Big Bus

With these skip-the-line tickets to the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel, you will explore galleries and collections featuring over 20,000 works of papal and Renaissance art. Additionally, a 3-hour ticket for the Rome tourist bus is included! 

Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel

With your tickets to the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel, you will gain skip-the-line access to one of the most extensive and well-curated museum complexes in the world, originating from papal collections that grew from the Renaissance. 

The tour will take you through courtyards and galleries where the architecture is adorned with barrel vaults, marble pavements, niches with classical sculptures, and a museography designed to guide the gaze. 

You will start among ancient statuary and iconic spaces such as the Pio-Clementine Museum, which houses iconic pieces of classicism.  You will progress through long galleries, including the Gallery of Maps, a monumental corridor richly decorated with painted cartography and illusionistic decor. 

Meanwhile, the Raphael Rooms will immerse you in the High Renaissance Rome. This space harmoniously integrates painting, perspective, and iconographic programs as a cultural manifesto. Then comes the threshold: the Sistine Chapel, where you will gaze up at the ceiling painted by Michelangelo and, before the altar, the imposing Last Judgment, executed between 1536 and 1541. Did you know that, due to the impact of millions of visits, the Last Judgment has required recent cleaning and care to remove discolorations? 

You will traverse over 3000 years of history in an extensive collection representing the Catholic Church and the papacy through 20,000 exhibited works of art.

Rome Tourist Bus

Moreover, your skip-the-line tickets will include a valid 3-hour ticket for the Rome tourist bus. It's the complete experience to discover the Eternal City!

You will enjoy a route with 8 stops in the historic center, allowing you to hop on and off as many times as you like within the validity period, connecting essential monuments of Rome in a practical and panoramic manner.

To top it off, the bus features an audio guide in Spanish on board so you won't miss any details of the city's history. In the following link, you can view a map with the route and stops:

• Route and stops of the Big Bus tourist bus.

Hours and Frequencies

The Big Bus tourist bus operates daily from 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM, with a frequency of between 13 and 28 minutes.

How does it work?

After making your reservation, you will need to pick up your skip-the-line tickets at Viale Vaticano 97, a location situated next to the entrance of the Vatican Museums. There, you will present your voucher, and the necessary documentation for access will be provided at the indicated time.

Upon arrival at the entrance, you will pass through the usual security checks before starting your visit to the premises.