Museo del Tesoro della Basilica di San Pietro / Museums / Cultural heritage / Culture and leisure

Museo del Tesoro della Basilica di San Pietro

Typology: Art Museum, Religious Museum

Address

Address: Piazza San Pietro

Zone: Città del Vaticano (Roma ovest)

ingresso all’interno della Basilica Vaticana

Contacts

Telephone: 06 69881840 biglietteria

Web site: www.vaticanstate.va/it/monumenti/basilica-di-san-pietro/tesoro-di-pietro.html

Opening times

Museums and cultural sites are subject at the COVID containment measures.
For the opening times and guidelines please check the official website.

Agreement with

Roma Pass

What the agreement provides:

Agreement teporarely suspended

ST. PETER'S BASILICA RESERVED ADMISSION AND TREASURY MUSEUM WITH AUDIO GUIDE - € 17.50, only with Roma Pass+Vox Vatican Guide
With Roma Pass and Vox Vatican Guide, you can avoid the long entrance queues to Saint Peter’s Basilica by purchasing the package "Reserved admission St. Peter's Basilica and Treasury Museum with audio guide" at a discounted and exclusive price of € 17,50 (instead of € 39,50). The Package Includes:
•Entrance to the Basilica of San Pietro through a dedicated security gate
•Entrance ticket for the Treasury Museum
•Official audio guide of the Treasury Museum

You can buy it exclusively through the Vox Vatican Guide App by following the simple steps indicated on the dedicated platform.

Description

The Museum of the Treasure of the Basilica of Saint Peter is of great historic and artistic interest. It keeps holy paraments and valuables offered for devotion to the Vatican Basilica. Of particular interest is a ciborium by Donatello, the "Monument to Sixtus the Fourth" by Pollaiolo, the silver cross and candelabra by A. Gentili(1582), the "Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus" (fourth century), the Cross of emperor Justin the Second (fourth century), a decorated dalmatic of the Early Middle Ages, and a metal gilded rooster (ninth century) that adorned the bell-tower of the Basilica of Constantine.

For more information

Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano

Culture and leisure › Historic places of worship › Catholic Churches

Last checked: 2021-10-18 10:23