Immersive Sistine Chapel Exhibition Opens in Historic San Antonio Mansion

Visiting Italy to tour museums and other historic sites may be tough to pull off right now, but we have the next best thing available in San Antonio this summer.

The immersive Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition allows visitors to experience this art up close in an unusual location just minutes from the Broadway Street corridor in the Government Hill neighborhood.

The exhibit will include 34 reproductions of Michelangelo’s works that adorn the Sistine Chapel in Italy, including “The Creation of Adam” and “The Last Judgement.” The near life-sized exhibit is set up throughout the 9,000-square-foot historic Lamberton mansion with art on all three of the building’s levels, the first time the touring exhibition will be hosted in a historic house.

“This is such a unique place, we thought it had a certain charm,” said Martin Biallas, CEO of See Global Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based company producing the exhibition. “We’ve already booked 20,000 tickets in advance for the first three weeks. We sold 4,000 tickets alone on our first day.”

You can get timed-entry tickets or stop by to visit as Biallas said they are encouraging walk-ins.

The ceiling paintings from the Sistine Chapel have been reproduced in licensed high-definition photos printed to reproduce the look and feel of the original paintings. Rather than craning your neck as you are shuffled through the chapel in a crowd, visitors can comfortably examine every brushstroke in Michaelangelo’s 34 frescoes. Each image has informative signage, and audio guides are available to rent for a more in-depth tour.

The featured image is of the historic Lambermont Mansion, which is hosting the traveling Sistine Chapel exhibition, courtesy image.