![What It's Like to See the Vatican Museums, Minus the Crowds](https://ic-cdn.flipboard.com/cntraveler.com/ae26ae02dc1508efacdcda2762bb4b04610b0d34/_xlarge.jpeg)
At the newly reopened site, you can still view the Sistine Chapel in relative solitude. Walking up to the monumental brass doors of Rome's Vatican Museums last week, I found myself in complete awe. The entrance, where an ever-present line of visitors usually wraps around the 16th-century walls, …
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