Vatican Tour: Skip the Line Experience

Experience the Vatican Museum and Sistine Chapel like never before with a Skip the Line tour. Enjoy treasured art, expert guides, and the option to upgrade to a private or small group tour.

Duration: 2 hours, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Vatican Museums - Accompanied by your guide, enter the world’s smallest country through the quickest entrance available!
  • Cortile della Pigna - Among the initial stops in the Vatican Museums is the Pinecone Courtyard, where you can see the Sphere within a Sphere sculpture and the Roman fountain, a massive bronze pinecone that gives the…
What's Included
  • Skip the Line Access & Entrance Ticket to the Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel
  • Skip the Line Access to St. Peter’s Basilica (only when option is selected during booking)
  • Headsets to hear your guide clearly (if guided option selected)
  • Insider Guide (if guided option selected)
What's Not Included
  • Food & Beverages
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

Discover the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel, and Raphael’s Rooms without the hassle of waiting! Join a Skip-the-Line tour to these iconic sites, and opt for First Access with guided entry to St. Peter’s Basilica, when available.
Delve into the highlights with an expert guide who makes history come alive. Group tours are limited to 20 participants and…

Location
Via Tunisi, 4
Via Tunisi
Plan on arriving to our meeting point at least 15 minutes in advance of your selected departure time. Meet our representative on the steps at Via Tunisi, located at the corner with Via Sebastiano Veniero. They will be holding a sign with the green EcoArt logo.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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365nikia
May 6, 2025
Skip the Line: Vatican Museum, Sistine Chapel + Optional Basilica - Exellent experience.Our tour guide Guia and EcoArt was very good at his job excellent, A lot of knowledge and experience.She arrived on time.We stopped at every point of interest and σhe gave us detailed information. Since the Sistine Chapel was closed due to the Conclave, with photographs and information he tried to make us see what the hall was like ! Totally recommend it.
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D8239nmstephenw
May 5, 2025
Highly recommend this tour - A great tour with a guide who helped bring the art to life. It was a ral shame that we couldn't se the Sistine Chapel because the Pope had recently died, but there was so much to see anyway that it didn't affect our enjoyment
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884carolinar
May 5, 2025
Amazing experience - I booked this tour few hours before Pope Francesco passed away. I was about to cancel but I decided to keep it. Although and without seeing Basil’s due to conclave, Patrizia made it such especial with her knowledge.
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Skilbyy
May 4, 2025
Phenomenal Tour Even During Conclave - We did a 2-hour Vatican Museum Tour with Frederico aka “Fred” and it was wonderful. He’s an archaeologist and very knowledgeable of the different artifacts in the museum. The museum is massive and the tour can only cover so much but he did a very good job hitting the highlights. We were there during the start of Conclave and couldn’t access the Sistine Chapel or St. Peter’s Basillica via the tour but Fred made up for it. We purchased our own additional passes for the Basillica and went after the museum. If you can, I’d break up the tours into different days because there is so much to see.
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Linda_r
May 2, 2025
Great tour but takes energy - Ton of walking and standing but this tour saved a ton of time and extra standing and walking. Martina was a very good guide and fairly easy to understand.
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Chloeo478
Apr 30, 2025
Amazing tour, must book! - Really informative, interesting tour. Polina our tour guide was funny and knowledgable and made the museum visit so easy and enjoyable. We have now decided to always do a tour when we go to museums because of her. We learnt so much that we wouldn't have known without a tour guide and it's really worth the money. Highlight of our holiday. Thank you Polina.
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Betkenstristans
Apr 24, 2025
Good time! - Mrs. Enza Brocolli did a great job. She was very informative, kept us entertained and gave us a great tour of the Vatican museum.
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804desislavad
Apr 24, 2025
Amazing experience - I booked a small group tour with EcoArt. Our guide was Alberto and he was extremely knowledgeable. It is a long tour - 2.5 - 3 hours, so make sure you have comfortable shoes. Alberto was talking every step of the tour, had a great sense of humor and pointed, explained or showed us some interesting things. We were supposed to be I think a group of 10 but somebody didn't show up and it was my family of 4 and another couple so it felt like a private tour. I loved it and would gladly book with EcoArt again! Thank you Alberto for an amazing experience! Grazie mile 🩷
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Melaniemn231pp
Apr 29, 2025
Great overview of the museums and background for visiting the Sistine Chapel. - Our guide was excellent. Very knowledgeable and a very good communicator (entertaining, well-spoken, etc.). He did an excellent job managing the crowds (national holiday, day before the Pope's funeral, etc.).
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Bjsheppard
Apr 30, 2025
Somewhat boring experience. - Popes death…closures. Spent 3 hours 10 minutes touring museum with so much repeated tour speech. Wife liked the tour but I found it boring. Way way too much talking with speculation of what things meant. No chapel or spiritual area visited. Would not do again, except as none tour walk through.
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up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).