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Skip the Line: Vatican Museums Walking Tour including Sistine Chapel, Raphael's Rooms and St Peter's

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History of the Museums Sections Exhibitions Thursdays in the Museums MeetingPlace Patrons of the Arts Visitor Information Hours and tickets Getting here Services Helpful hints Guided tours Art & Faith Art & Music Pilgrimages John Paul II Educational Activities Educational Tours Tours and Laboratory Animated Tours Tours for the Deaf Tours for the Blind Family Tour Publications Papal Basilicas Saint Peter Saint John Lateran Saint Paul OutsideThe Walls Saint Mary Major   News from the Museums Egyptian Museum closure From 29 August to 1 October 2011 the Egyptian Museum is closed to the public for extraordinary repairsTariffs 2012 For the third consecutive year, the 2012 admissionfees to the Vatican Museums will remainunchanged

Tickets Online Avoid the queue by booking your admission ticket or guided tour. The admission ticket gives the right to visit the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel.   An Autumn of Art Under the Stars The evening openings return this coming September The 2011 edition of "The Vatican Museums Under the Stars" will continue after the summer break every Friday of the months of September and October from 7 pm to 11 pm (last admission at 9.30 pm). Online booking is obligatory.  [More]    "A Treasure Hunt" with Mum and Dad! The Vatican Museums presents the Family Tour, the latest of didactic initiatives designedad hoc for families visiting with their kids. Young visitors are able to discover the treasures of the museums in an original and fun way by listening to a modern audio-guide while following an illustrated map. [More]    The Matisse Chapel in the Vatican On 22 June 2011 the Vatican Museums unveiled to the public the Matisse Room, dedicated entirely to the one and only religious work of art conceived by the French artist - The Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary - located in Vence on the French Riviera.  [More]   Thursdays in the Museums The Thursdays in the Museums programmed a Conference for 16 June 2011, commemorating the discovery in the Vatican of a tombstone placed by the Napoleonic Government along the Via Appia. This important discovery bears the signature of Giorgio Filippi and Tullio Aebischer, the speakers at this meeting. [More]    Eyes for hearing, hands for seeing From 1 March the Vatican Museums make their immense heritage even more accessible by offering a new range of tours, all free of charge. Among such tours is a multisensory tour, enabling the blind and visually impaired to explore a selection of works in the Vatican Pinacoteca and guided tours for the deaf in Italian Sign Language (LIS).     The Vatican Radio is eighty years old! On 12 February 1931 the Papal radio stationbroadcasts for the first time a speech in Latin by Pope Pius XI. In honour of this special occasion, on 10 February 2011, the Vatican Museums are giving a presentation of the celebratory programme for the whole year of 2011. The Vatican Museums are dedicating an area in which films, images and vintage equipment belonging to the Vatican Radio are being exhibited.  80 years of sounds and images

Greetings from the Director Dear Visitors, firstly, a cordial welcome from the Director of the Vatican Museums. Second, you are entering into one of the most important sites for the history of human... [Continues]   Visit the Collections Online   Virtual online Tour of the Vatican Museums (explore the Sistine Chapel) 3 selections of 'must-see' works MeetingPlace The Vatican Museums are promoting an international study day, Sharing Conservation, on interdisciplinary collaboration in the conservation of works of art made of several materials, based on up-to-date collaborative approaches. The Study Day is scheduled for 4 October 2011 by prior registration.   The latest exhibition displaying fifty works of art deriving from the Pontifical Galleries stems from the collaboration between the Vatican Museums and theRepublic of San Marino. This exhibition documents the way in which artists, ancient and modern, have represented human features in their research to reflect, especially through facial characteristics, the soul. The exhibition will be presented by the curators: A. Paolucci and G. Gentili, 14 July 2011.   Important restorations The Room of the Immaculate, decorated with a cycle of frescoes by Francesco Podesti, is located in the Borgia Tower next to the Raphael's Rooms.   The restoration of theBernini Angels for the Cathedra and the Blessed Sacrament Chapel in St. Peter's Basilica is underway in the "open laboratory".   Everyday thousands of tourists walk through the evocative Room of the Tributes as they leave the Sistine Chapel.   "Rituals of Life" When aboriginal art is part of daily life The exhibition "Rituals of Life" is accessible to visitors to the Vatican Museums, starting from Saturday 16 October 2010 and will be on display for all of 2011. "Rituals of Life" is a journey through the spirituality and culture of the Aboriginal people of Australia through the collection preserved in the Missionary Ethnological Museum of the Vatican Museums. [More]