The Sistine Chapel

These photos are of some of the rooms and artefacts on the walk through the museum rooms to the Sistine Chapel

We had to walk about a km back out of St Peter's and around the back to get in to see the Sistine Chapel. When we first entered the building before you get to the Chapel it is like a museum, there was a big room full of busts and statues that have been recovered throughout the years, restored if need be and put on display, we couldnt believe how many there were. We thought that was it but found out that the rooms just went on forever, room after room filled with all sorts of artefacts, massive woven rugs that were hundred of years old, paintings, statues, scuptures, religious bits and pieces, it must have taken us two hours or more to actual get through all the rooms. I thought that we were in the Sistine Chapel at one stage as the room we were in was just amazing, the ceiling was painted with all these pictures and it was just beautiful, but I found out it was just another one of the museum rooms!! It was funny because we thought we had somehow missed the chapel as we had walked for ages and we thought we were going out the exit when the next door we came to was full of people all looking up, so we knew we hadnt missed it after all!! It certainly is a great sight, heaps of different pictures painted on all the ceiling and walls, and to see the "creation of man" finger touching painting was just great too!! Even the walls of the whole chapel were painted as if they had curtains hanging on them, really fine detail on the curtains and all the folds etc. It was well worth the long walk to see the famous Chapel and we all agreed that it was great to have had to walk through all the museum rooms on the way as we may have thought we'd give them a miss as we were getting a bit weary by this stage.