Discover the many types of ticket and check prices, reductions or special free entry reserved to different visitors.
The entry ticket for the Vatican Museums entitles the visit to the Museums and Sistine Chapel solely on the day on which the ticket is issued.
Tickets cannot be refunded.
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Prices and Tickets
Full entry ticket
€ 20.00 (without online booking)
Reduced entry ticket
€ 8.00 (without online booking)
€ 8.00 + 5.00 (with “Skip the Line” booking on the official Vatican Museums website)
Reduced ticket Schools
€ 4.00 (without online booking)
€ 4.00 + 2.00 (with “Skip the Line” booking on the official Vatican Museums website)
Reduced ticket Students
Papal Palace and Secret Garden of Castel Gandolfo
Full entry ticket € 12.00
Discover and check the reductions reserved to different visitors:
Free entry Vatican Museums
- Last Sunday of the month (subject to the Calendar of museum openings/closures).
- Children below the age of 7.
- Directors of museum institutions, managing boards and other bodies engaged in the protection of archaeological, historic and artistic heritage.
- All disabled visitors with certified invalidity of more than 74%.
In the case of visitors who are not self-sufficient, free entry is extended also to a companion.
Free tickets for disabled visitors and their companions cannot be booked online but are instead issued, upon presentation of certification of invalidity, directly at the “Special Permits” and/or “Reception” desks situated in the entrance hall of the Vatican Museums.
The disabled visitor and an eventual companion are guaranteed priority Skip the line entry (without queuing in line). See Services for visitors with disabilities. - Holders of the valid cards issued by the following institutions: Icom (International Council of Museums); Icomos (International Council on Monuments and Sites).
- University teachers in the fields of Archaeology, Art History, Architecture and Ethnology, as well as those from academies based in Rome, for holding occasional specialist lessons in the museum sectors related to their areas of teaching, upon written request to the Directorate of the Museums and Cultural Heritage. Should permission be granted, this does not authorise access to all the remaining display areas, which may be visited only upon purchase of a regular entry ticket for the Museums.
N.B.: If you wish to combine the free entrance to the Museums with the purchase of a guided tour or a restaurant service (Breakfast/Happy Hour/Lunch), please write in advance to info.musei@scv.va.
Full entry ticket “Skip the Line”
€ 20.00 + 5.00 (with booking on the official Vatican Museums website)
Reduced ticket Pilgrimages
€ 8.00 (without online booking)
€ 13.00 (with “Skip the Line” booking on the official Vatican Museums website)
Reduced ticket University Institutes
€ 8.00 (without online booking)
€ 13.00 (with “Skip the Line” booking on the official Vatican Museums website)
Reduced ticket Seminaries and Religious Colleges
€ 4.00 (without online booking)
€ 4.00 + 2.00 (with “Skip the Line” booking on the official Vatican Museums website)
Family Tariff
For the tours of the Papal Palace and Secret Garden of Castel Gandolfo, parents with children can take advantage of the Family Tariff. The special reduced tariff is reserved to families composed of a mother, father and at least two children (aged between 7 and 18 years and/or students up to and including 25 years of age with valid documentation). The ticket is free for second and subsequent children, and children aged between 0 and 6 years enter free.
Free entry Papal Palace and Secret Garden of Castel Gandolfo
- Children below the age of 7.
- For second and subsequent children, families composed of a mother, father and at least two children (aged between 7 and 18 years and/or students up to and including 25 years of age with valid documentation).
- Directors of museum institutions, managing boards and other bodies engaged in the protection of archaeological, historic and artistic heritage.
- All disabled visitors with certified invalidity of more than 74%.
In the case of visitors who are not self-sufficient, free entry is extended also to a companion.
Free tickets for disabled visitors and their companions cannot be booked online but are instead issued, upon presentation of certification of invalidity, directly at the Ticket Office. - Holders of the valid cards issued by the following institutions: Icom (International Council of Museums); Icomos (International Council on Monuments and Sites).