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Vatican Museums Highlights

Ten stops, from the Laocoön in the Pio Clementino to the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel.

Ten stops, 22 minutes, on your phone in the museum. The first stop is free, the whole tour $4.99.

Audio in English and Japanese.

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The tour follows the museums’ one-way route, so each stop comes up as you reach it. You listen on your own phone, with your own headphones, at your own pace.

Each stop takes a few minutes. Start it in front of the work and pause whenever you like.

The stops

  1. 1
    Laocoön
    The statue Michelangelo ran to see
    0:00 / 2:03Free
  2. 2
    Apollo Belvedere
    Seized by Napoleon, paraded through Paris
    0:00 / 0:46Preview
  3. 3
    Perseus Triumphant
    Made to fill an empty pedestal
    0:00 / 0:48Preview
  4. 4
    Belvedere Torso
    No head, no arms, no legs
    0:00 / 0:42Preview
  5. 5
    Augustus of Prima Porta
    Died at 75, carved forever young
    0:00 / 0:45Preview
  6. 6
    Gallery of Maps
    Walk the length of Italy
    0:00 / 0:44Preview
  7. 7
    The Disputation of the Holy Sacrament
    The Pope's library, handed to a 27-year-old
    0:00 / 0:47Preview
  8. 8
    The School of Athens
    Fifty thinkers, one impossible moment
    0:00 / 0:47Preview
  9. 9
    Creation of Adam
    The most famous gap in art
    0:00 / 0:47Preview
  10. 10
    The Last Judgment
    Four hundred bodies spinning around one hand
    0:00 / 0:42Preview