Civitavecchia harbor 
Vatican Museum  

From the ship to the Vatican museum in an hour.

work in progress

The Vatican Museums are a group of art and Christian museums situated within the walls of Vatican City. The Vatican Museums collections consist of over 70,000 paintings and sculptures, displayed prominently in over 54 galleries, making it one of the most impressive collections of Renaissance art anywhere in the world. The museums are home to a number of classical sculptures, tapestries, and paintings by Renaissance greats such as Raphael, Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Bernini and Leonardo da Vinci. The Vatican Museums also have a collection of Modern Religious Art with paintings and sculptures from artists like Carlo Carrà, Vincent van Gogh, Giorgio de Chirico, Paul Gauguin, Salvador Dalí, and Pablo Picasso.

Your Vatican Museum tickets will provide you access to all the 54 galleries, including the Sistine Chapel. Some of the most popular ones include Greek Cross Gallery, Sala Rotonda (a miniature Pantheon, with impressive ancient mosaics and statues lining the perimeter), the Gallery of the Statues, the Gallery of the Busts, Museo Chiaramonti, Museo Gregoriano Etrusco and Museo Gregoriano Egiziano. 

Museum and BASILICA San Peter are two separate places.

Access to the Vatican Museums requires one to purchase tickets. These tickets will allow you to skip the queue at the entrance and head straight to the security. Another feature of the Vatican Museums ticket is that it includes access to the famed Sistine Chapel. The Sistine Chapel is situated within the Vatican Museums and you are not required to purchase a separate ticket to access it.

With an individual access ticket, you also get the option of going for an audio tour. These headsets are available in multiple languages and provide all the important information you need to learn more about the paintings and sculptures that adorn the Vatican Museums. Apart from individual access tickets, you can also go for guided tours of the Vatican Museums.