Splurge on a private tour guide for the Vatican museums to avoid the hour-long lines outside.
The Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel will be closed on both Easter Sunday and Monday.
Responding to this kind of criticism, the director of the Vatican Museums, Antonio Paolucci, acknowledged that there was a "serious problem".
The move has left thousands of Vatican visitors and pilgrims scrambling to find alternate ways to pay for popular sites, including Vatican Museums, as well as souvenirs, gifts and meals.
Last year the court heard some 220 cases, mainly involving petty crimes such as pickpocketing committed by a tiny fraction of the 18 million people who enter Saint Peter's Basilica or the Vatican Museums each year.
Far less modest are the adjacent Vatican Museums, an exhausting feast of art, and home to the world's most famous frescoes in the legendary Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo's astounding ceiling and wall frescoes that take the cake - picture terrified sinners and ravishing prophets bursting out in 3-D brilliance.
The new cash-only rule currently applies to all establishments in the Vatican, including museums, shops and restaurants.
As an aside, Lombardi referred to concerns over financial oversight in the city state, which have meant that Vatican shops and museums have not been able to accept credit or debit cards since January 1.
The cleverest thing about this imaginative exhibition in Rome's Capitoline Museums is how it plays on the darkest stereotypes of the Vatican and the Catholic Church in order to draw visitors in and then points those visitors toward complexity and nuance that the stereotypes obscure.
WSJ: Lux in Arcana | Capitoline Museum | The Papacy's Private Papers | By Francis X. Rocca
Most of the museums in the world have their own secret rooms, probably even the Vatican.
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