The Sistine Chapel film sets on display at the Bass Concert Hall

Getting to Vatican City: difficult. Getting to the University of Texas: does not require a plane or passport.

Texas Performing Arts announced this week “Behind the Scenes: Hollywood’s Sistine Chapel,” a new exhibition coming to Bass Concert Hall next month. Following a recent exhibition of hand paintings Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film sets, the university’s arts branch will stage 18 more backdrops including an almost complete replica of the Sistine Chapel. Works donated to Texas Performing Arts by the Art Directors Guild’s Backdrop Recovery Project are touted as “large-scale copies of historical frescoes” in a press release.

Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m.

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This will be the “first public screening of the Sistine Chapel Suite set,” the statement said, and they will be displayed on the concert hall stage. The funds reproduce frescoes by Michelangelo, Perugino, Botticelli and other artists; they were created for the 1968 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film “The Fisherman’s Shoes”.

“Denying access to the film in the Sistine Chapel, the Italy-based film crew requested an emergency replica of the Sistine Chapel,” the statement said. Studio stage supervisor George Gibson “brought together stage performers from across Hollywood, including competing film studios, to complete this monumental task in just three months. Their illusion was so convincing that the Catholic clergy was enraged at the film’s premiere, believing the film crew had been cleared to film the real Sistine Chapel. “

From June 25, the exhibition will be open by reservation from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday and from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The exhibition will be closed on July 4. The show ends on August 1st. Tickets cost $ 20 for adults, $ 15 for military and seniors, $ 10 for non-UT students, and $ 12 each for groups of 10 or more. Admission is free for UT students, faculty and staff, and members of the Texas Inner Circle.

For more information on the sets that are part of the exhibition and to book, visit texasperformingarts.org.