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2. Vatican Museums - Wikipedia

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   The Vatican Museums (Italian: Musei Vaticani; Latin: Musea Vaticana) are the public museums of Vatican City, enclave of Rome. They display works from the immense collection amassed by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries, including several of the most well-known Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of ...

3. Museo Pio Cristiano - Wikipedia

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   The Museo Pio Cristiano is one of the Vatican Museums. It houses various works of Christian antiquity. [1] The museum was founded by Pope Pius IX in 1854, [2] two years after the establishment of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology.

4. List of museums in Vatican City - Wikipedia

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   Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This is a list of museums in Vatican City. Museums in Vatican City. Museo del Tesoro di San Pietro;

5. Vatican Railway - Wikipedia

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   Part of the station building continues in use as passenger station and goods (rail freight) office, whilst part now houses the Vatican numismatic and philatelic museum. [21] The railway station also houses the small Vatican duty-free department store, a private facility open only to Vatican subjects and diplomats. [21] [12]

6. Vatican Historical Museum - Wikipedia

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   The Vatican Historical Museum (Italian: Museo storico vaticano) is one of the sections of the Vatican Museums. It was founded in 1973 at the behest of Pope Paul VI, [1] and was initially hosted in environments under the Square Garden. In 1987 it was moved to the main floor of the Apostolic Palace of the Lateran and opened in March 1991.

7. Hermes (Museo Pio-Clementino) - Wikipedia

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   3/4 left view of the head. At 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) tall, the statue shows a nude young man with a chlamys on his shoulder and left forearm. It is a variant of the Andros type; [3] the Andros example has the chlamys and a serpent twined round the tree-support, with the tree and serpent allowing its definite identification as Hermes as psychopompus; it is directly influenced by the Hermes and the ...