Visiting The Vatican Museums in Rome | Plan Your Visit

By Metro

Duration: 11-15 minutes

• Board the metro from Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, or Roma Termini.
• Take Line A to the Ottaviano-S. Pietro station. From here, St. Peter’s Square is just a 5-minute walk away.
• You can also alight at Cipro (8 mins) or Lepanto (16 mins) stations.

By Bus

Duration: 30-35 minutes

• Bus 49 will stop at the square in front of the Vatican Museums.
• You can also take 32, 81, 982, which stops at Piazza del Risorgimento (7 mins).
• 492 and 990 will stop in Via Leone IV / Via degli Scipioni (5 mins).

By Tram

Duration: 53 minutes

• Take line number 19 running from Piazza dei Gerani.
• The closest stop is Piazza del Risorgimento just outside the Vatican city walls.
• A quick 7-minute walk will take you to Vatican Museum.

Gregorian Egyptian Museum

At the Gregorian Egyptian Museum, you can see sculptures, statues, and other objects that had been brought into Rome from Egypt, as well as some pieces of the Egyptian collection from the Hadrian`s Villa at Tivoli.

Pio Clementino Museum

The museum is made of twelve different rooms that showcases pontifical collections of classical sculpture dating back to the original collection of pope Julius II (1503-1513) and, donations from collectors and antiquaries.

Profane Museum

The museum was created to display the non-religious objects of the Carpegna, Vettori, and Assemani collections present in the museum at the time of its founding.

Borgia Apartments

The Borgia Apartments are a suite of rooms that were used as a residence by Pope Alexander VI. He had commissioned Bernardino di Betto to decorate the rooms with frescos in the 19th century.

Lapidary Gallery

Curated by Gaetano Marini, the Lapidary Gallery features a stone library with epigraphs that are written on slabs, bases, memorials, urns, altars and sarcophagi, dating from between the 1st century B.C. and the 6th century A.D.

Gregoriano Profano Museum

At the Gregoriano Profano Museum you will find original Greek sculptures, reconstructions of Greek originals made during the Roman age, and sculptures of the Imperial Roman age.

Pinacoteca

Inaugurated in 1932, the Pinacoteca is home to 460 paintings by some of the greatest artists of the history of Italian painting, from Giotto, who ushered in the Italian Renaissance, to Raphael’s last painting.

Sistine Chapel

A chapel in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican City, the Sistine Chapel is known for the beautiful frescos created by Botticelli, Perugino, Pinturicchio, Ghirlandaio, Rosselli, and most importantly, Michelangelo.

Raphael's Rooms

Four rooms form a part of the apartment in the Apostolic Palace that was chosen by Julius II della Rovere as his own residence and used also by his successors. These rooms are famous for the frescos painted by Raphael.