The Vatican Museums Attract 4.5 Million Visitors Annually

That's more than 12,000 per day.

Many of these visitors choose to wait in a very long, slow-moving line to purchase tickets.

A very long line that continues around the corner.

But with the pre-purchase of this handy-dandy OMNIA card, we were escorted past the very long line and directly into the sprawling museum complex.

And here's a teeny-tiny percentage of today's crowd in the Gallery of Statutes and Hall of Busts.