Private tour of the Vatican Museum, Sistine Chapel and St. Peter’s Basilica

A private guided Vatican Museum Tour

See one of the world’s finest collections of paintings, sculptures, carvings and frescoes during this private tour of the Vatican Museums, Michelangelo’s breathtaking Sistine Chapel ceiling and St. Peter’s Basilica.

Treat yourself with this skip-the-line private tour of the Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel and St. Peters basilica, to discover one of the world’s most renowned collections of art. There are more than nine miles of art, so a private tour offers more customization for your guide to point out the highlights and explain the story behind specific work of art, of your choice.

Your private tour starts at the Vatican Pinacoteca art gallery, where you will see painting such as Da Vinci’s unfinished St. Jermone and Caravaggio’s Deposition from the Cross. Continue onto the Chiaramonti Museum founded in the early 1800s by Pope Pius VII, with over a thousand sculptures and statues of emperors and gods. Then exit directly into the Gregorian Etruscan Museum to see bronze figurines and Etruscan tombs. Continue on to Raphael Rooms to admire Raphael’s most famous frescoes. Gallery of Maps, featuring a series of painted topographical maps of Italy.

Go to the breathtakingly beautiful Sistine Chapel, considered the pope’s home chapel, to see Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam and the Last Judgement. (Talking inside the chapel is prohibited, so any commentary from your guide will be given outside the doors.)

Next, you’ll visit St Peter’s Basilica to admire the famous artworks, architecture and mosaics by Michelangelo and Bernini, including another Michelangelo masterpiece, La Pietà and Bernini’s bronze baldachin altar canopy.