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Vatican Treasure Hunt for Kids
Our Vatican Treasure Hunt is the perfect tour to engage your children with art history in a fun and interesting way!
Itinerary Highlights
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The Hunt Begins: Follow clues and solve puzzles throughout the various Vatican Galleries, actively engaging with masterpieces you might otherwise overlook.
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Discover Ancient Worlds: Search for fascinating details in artifacts dating from Ancient Egypt (including spotting real mummies!) through to the Roman Age (find Emperor Nero’s huge bathtub).
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Interactive Learning: Use sketching and drawing activities to focus on the intricate details of paintings and sculptures, turning observation into a fun challenge.
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Gallery Exploration: The hunt guides you through key exhibition spaces, making sure you hit all the major rooms in the Vatican Galleries.
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The Sistine Chapel Finale: Conclude your adventure by admiring Michelangelo’s phenomenal frescoes in the world-famous Sistine Chapel, celebrating all the hidden artistic treasures you uncovered along the way.
Why book this tour
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Ultimate Engagement: This tour is structured as a 3-hour treasure hunt, ensuring children are actively involved from start to finish with drawing, coloring and puzzle-solving activities.
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Child-Friendly Private Guide: Enjoy the focused attention of a private, enthusiastic guide who knows exactly how to inspire curiosity in young visitors.
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Guaranteed Skip-the-Line Entry: Bypass the notorious Vatican queues with our pre-booked tickets, dedicating all your precious time to the hunt itself.
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Prizes and Souvenirs: The activity includes small prizes for the children and they get to keep their personalized activity book as a fantastic, educational memory of their Vatican adventure.
Description
Are you looking for a fun skip the line tour that will involve the whole family? Are you tired of boring, long visits to museums and churches? Our Vatican Treasure Hunt is exactly what you are looking for! Children will be engaged from start to finish as they follow a Vatican scavenger hunt carefully designed to be both highly engaging and educational.
Our 3 hour Vatican treasure hunt is a unique opportunity for the little ones (and also the adult members of the party!) to discover everything about the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel accompanied by a child-friendly, private guide.
In just 3 hours, our enthusiastic private guide will accompany your family through the different Galleries in the Vatican and on to the world-famous Sistine Chapel.
Along the way, your children will draw and color pictures, solve clues and puzzles and discover details of the numerous masterpieces that adorn the different galleries, dating from Ancient Egypt (you will see real mummies!) up to the Roman Age (Nero’s huge bathtub can be found in the Vatican Museums!) and on and on… Your kids will be encouraged to really look at the paintings and sculptures in order to discover fascinating little details. With our Vatican treasure hunt, the adults are also bound to find hidden intricacies in the masterpieces that others would have missed.
The Vatican Scavenger Hunt will involve small prizes for the younger members of your family! It will be fantastic for them to keep their small activity book as a memory of their journey to the Vatican and of all they discovered! When you get back home they can share all the fun facts and history they’ve learned during their Vatican Treasure Hunt with their friends!
Things to know before the tour
- Please note that in certain periods of summer time, or when the Vatican Museums reopen its doors after bank holidays, the museums might be busier than usual.
- Please note that, for disabled visitors with certified invalidity of more than 74%, the Vatican Museums offers free entry that is extended to a companion for visitors who are not self-sufficient. To benefit from this, make sure you mention it at the time of booking so that our staff may handle your request.
- Photography welcome – but no tripods or drones. It not possible to take pictures inside Sistine Chapel as this is a holy place.
- Please cover your knees and shoulders to enter Vatican
- You can bring a stroller inside but it is not recommended due to the constant presence of stairs.
Important information
We need the full names of all the participants because the entrance tickets are nominative. All the participants will have their own ticket with the full name on, they are not transferrable and cannot be changed nor refunded. You will need your IDs (minors and infants included) because they will be checked by the Vatican Museums guards at the entrance. If you don’t bring your IDs or if the names don’t match, you will be denied access. You don’t need the physical ID, even a copy or a picture is fine as long as it’s well visible.
Cancellation policy
Cancellations 4 days or earlier prior to the scheduled tour are subject to a penalty.
Please note Tickets and reservation are strictly not refundable. If you cancel 4 days or earlier prior to the tour we will refund you partially for the price of guide only.
No refund will be provided if you cancel your tour within 4 days prior to the scheduled tour.
Meeting point
Included
- 3 hours private guide
- Vatican Museums skip the line tickets
- Prizes for kids
Excluded
Tips
About the Tour
Offered in English
Duration
3 hours
Level
Easy
Access
Audio
Family and kids
Dates and departures
Everyday except on Sundays and on public holidays
Values
- Priority Access and Expert Guidance!
- Local Staff Support
- Encounter Ancient Treasures
- Unravel Hidden Meanings in the Artwork
— What you won’t miss
You Will See
Sistine Chapel
Vatican Museums
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