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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 ...
The Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art is a collection of paintings, graphic art and sculptures in the Vatican Museums.. It occupies 55 rooms: the Borgia Apartment (apartment of Pope Alexander VI) on the first floor of the Apostolic Palace, the two floors of the Salette Borgia, a series of rooms below the Sistine Chapel, and a series of rooms on the ground floor.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This is a list of museums in Vatican City. Museums in Vatican City
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On the last Sunday of each month, the Vatican Museum is open to the public for free. This is extremely popular and it is common to wait in line for many hours. This image is a panoramic view of one small stretch of the entire queue in April 2007, which continues for some distance in both directions beyond view.
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.
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.
The museum opened to the public in 1927 and was moved to modern galleries in the Vatican Museums in 1973. [ 3 ] [ 1 ] Wilhelm Schmidt was the inaugural director of the museum. 100,000 objects had been sent from around the globe for the exposition, 40,000 were chosen by a commission led by Schmidt; this formed the nucleus of the original collection.