Vatican State: Vatican Museums + Castel Sant'Angelo

Buy tickets for the most important places in the Vatican State with just one reservation: Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel and Castel Sant'Angelo!

Add at your itinerary the most important places in the Vatican State with just one reservation: Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel and Castel Sant'Angelo!

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Buy tickets for the most important places in the Vatican State with just one reservation: Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel and Castel Sant'Angelo!

Visit Castel Sant'Angelo – archaeological site and museum, with a past as fortress, prison, and papal residence – site of episodes of great artistic and historical importance. It is home to numerous collections, which are largely accessible to the general public, including furniture, furnishings, and precious sculpture and paintings. Collections also include valuable Renaissance ceramics and fragments of monumental sculptural decoration of the Roman era, brought to light from the ancient tomb of Hadrian in the course of numerous excavations and restoration.

The Vatican Museums, with over twenty museums that draw close to five million visitors annually, the largest, richest, are the most compelling and perhaps most comprehensive museum complex in the world also includes Michelangelo's unparalleled Sistine Chapel.

Time

Open from Tuesday to Sunday: 9:00 am to 7:30 pm. The ticket office closes at 6:30 pm.
Closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1.

Access restricted to a partial use of outdoor spaces for disabled visitors, the halls of the exhibitions are not accessible to people with mobility problems.

In case of intense influx, access will be allowed in limited number of persons slots.

The Prisons, the Passetto and the Stufetta of Clement VII can be visited on special occasions or upon written request, at management's discretion.

Reservations must be made with a minimum of 1-day notice.

Reserved tickets must be picked up no later than 30 minutes before the confirmed time slot. After this time, reservations will be canceled and you will lose the right to your tickets.

Before You Book

PLEASE NOTE: Immediately after submitting an order, you will receive two email. The first email contains your order summary (this one you receive immediately after placing your order), the second email confirms your successful payment (one business day after placing the order). In order to receive these two emails, please make sure that you enter your email address correctly and check that antispam or antivirus filters do not block emails from our [email protected] address. Users of AOL, Comcast and Sbcglobal.net need to pay special attention to this, please. Vouchers will also be available, one business day after the request, at your dashboard.

IMPORTANT NOTE: The time you select on the order form is your preferred time. The closest available time, which can be anytime during opening hours on the selected date, will be automatically confirmed if your preferred time is no longer available.

Vatican Museus Reservation

The admission ticket to the Vatican Museums is valid for visiting the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel only on the date indicated on the voucher.

The Vatican Museums require the name and birth date of all participants of the group, please enter their names in specific field in the order form, once you have added the reservation to your shopping cart.

Museum confirms the visit around two months before the date, so reservation guarantees the insertion into the waiting list. Credit card charge is made the business day after the reservation request.

Voucher information about Vatican Museums

After the payment is confirmed, you will receive an e-mail with the confirmation of the booking, the voucher containing the reservation code and tour information. You are asked to print off the voucher so as to present it on the day of the tour. The reservation will be checked by means of the bar code present on the voucher. In case of loss of the voucher please consult the Customer Care Staff. To access the museums, you will have to show the Voucher you got by email together with a valid identification document.

If the visitor needs to modify their voucher, they must present themselves at the "Reception Desk" in order to request a new voucher. Reservation changes can be made, only once, up to one hour before the intended visit directly to the Vatican cashier, or by sending an email to the email address [email protected] up to one business day before the visit. It is not possible to make modifications to the number of participants taking part to the visit.

OPENING HOURS Vatican Museums

Open from Monday to Saturday; entrance times will be indicated at the moment of the reservation.

Closure:
Sundays (except for the last Sunday of each month, excluding Easter, June 29th and December 25th and 26th)
January 1st and 6th (Epiphany)
February 11th (Lateran Pacts Anniversary)
March 19th (St. Joseph), Easter and Easter Monday
May 1st (Ascension Thursday) and May 22nd (Corpus Christi Day)
August 14 (Assumption Vigil) and 15th (Assumption Day)
November 1st (All Saint's Day)
December 8th (Feast of the Immaculate Conception), 25th (Christmas Day) and 26th (St. Stephen's Day).

Rules of Vatican Musems

The reservation allows you to enter the museum at confirmed date and time without queuing up, only at time confirmed on the voucher; delays on reservations are not allowed. It is advised to be at the meeting point 15 minutes before time indicated in the confirmation voucher. Your preferential entrance can, in any case, have a waiting time respect time indicated on the voucher due to the huge number or visitors entering the museums every day. Weekend a Firenze is not responsible for eventual delays related to inefficiencies of the Vatican Museums cashiers.

Rooms closed at the moment of the visit will be indicated at entrance.
Access to the Museums is permitted only to visitors with proper attire.
All the reservations, dates and times might be changed or cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances related to activities of the Pope.
Reservations can be made until 4 days before the visit.

Deposits at the Cloakroam vatican Museums

  • The cloakroom staff will accept from the visitors their bags and personal belongings (irrispective of the form, material or dimension of th object), with the exception of clothing items, hats, portable umbrellas.
  • It is obligatory to deposit in the cloakroom suitcases, backpacks and containers with dimensions larger than cm 40 x 35 x 15.
  • It is obligatory to deposit in the cloakroom bags and bagpacks which are cumbersome, except those small-sized, that carried on shoulder, don't jut out by 15 cm from the body's shape in its highest point.
  • It is obligatory to deposit in the cloakroom any umbrella with a spike tip, umbrellas of medium and large size, walking sticks (except those required by disabled visitors to facilitate their movement), tripods for cameras and video cameras, signage of any kind (except signs used by official guides for their identification).
  • It is obligatory to deposit in the cloakroom knives, scissors, any tools thai could be harmful to other persons ora damage works of art in the Museums.
  • It is not possible to deposit in the cloakroom, fiirearms of any kind or other dangerous objects. It is strictly forbidden to enter the Museums with any kind of weapon.
  • Access to the Museums by armed visitors is not permitted. Non exception to this rule is made for visitors holding a firearm permit, or if the weapon forms part of a uniform (police, military or others).
  • HOPENING HOURS CASTEL SANT'ANGELO

    Open from Tuesday to Sunday: 9:00 am to 7:30 pm. The ticket office closes at 6:30 pm.
    Closed on Mondays, December 25, January 1.

    Access restricted to a partial use of outdoor spaces for disabled visitors, the halls of the exhibitions are not accessible to people with mobility problems.

    In case of intense influx, access will be allowed in limited number of persons slots.

    The Prisons, the Passetto and the Stufetta of Clement VII can be visited on special occasions or upon written request, at management's discretion.

    Reservations must be made with a minimum of 1-day notice.

    Reserved tickets must be picked up no later than 30 minutes before the confirmed time slot. After this time, reservations will be canceled and you will lose the right to your tickets.

    Cancellation Policy

    Once the visit is confirmed, you can not cancel or modify.

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