Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani), Province of Rome

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What started as just a small collection of sculptures, has become over the centuries, a most wonderful museum complex containing one of the world's most important collections of art of mankind.

Vatican Museums were founded under the patronage of two popes in the eighteenth century - Clement XIV and Pius VI. They were among the first allowed access to collections of public art, promoting the culture among the masses. The first building of the museum complex, Pio-Clementine Museum was named after these two pontiffs.

Over the years, several popes have added to already impressive collection of works from the Vatican. Today there are 13 museums and collections of the Vatican Palaces and another 14 that are included in tours of the Vatican Museums complex. The complex of museums worth visiting are only inside buildings and are decorated with frescoes and marble. Museums that comprise the complex of the Vatican museums are very wide and diverse. Each of these is interesting, who like most strictly depending on the tastes of every tourist and his artistic preferences.

Gregorian Egyptian Museum was founded in 1839 by Pope Gregory XVI, who showed a keen interest in Egypt. With nine rooms, objects of art in the museum range from the third century BC hieroglyphics to various objects from Mesopotamia and Syria and Palestine, dating from the third century AD

Gregorian Etruscan Museum, founded by the same Pope, and is very interesting to see. The 23 rooms include everything from Roman sarcophagi Tuscan jewelry, porcelain and ivory objects to the frescos of the XVI century, the best works of Italian masters.

Vatican Pinacoteca, one of the newest museum, opened in 1932, is an exhibition of paintings. The paintings shown here dates from the 12th century to the 19th century and occupies entire rooms dedicated to works of great artists such as DaVinci, Bernini and Raphael. There is also an exhibition of icons unique to the 15th century until the 19th century.

Founded by Pius XI in 1926, the Missionary Ethnological Museum display of religious objects from four different geographic regions - Asia, Oceania, Africa and America. Over 80,000 pieces that make up the museum collection dramatically. Other museums are found Collection of Modern Religious Art founded by Pope Paul VI in 1973, consists of 55 rooms, the Museum of Classical Antiquities (Greek and Roman) Pio Christian Museum, tapestries, ceramics, miniature mosaics, the Museum of Sacred ; Gregorian Profane Museum Vatican Museum of History - which offers a retrospective long and tumultuous history of the Vatican.

The tour includes the Vatican museums and the famous Sistine Chapel, where visitors can enjoy not only the famous ceiling painted by Michelangelo but also other works of art of the highest quality, which also include "Last Supper" on the altar wall (Cosimo Rosselli's work - not to be confused with the more famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, also called "Last Supper" which is located in Milan). The four rooms, known as the "Stanze di Raffaello, hosting the works of Raphael and other artists of all school members. Rafael Stanzele are also included in the tour the Vatican Museums.

After you have purchased tickets for the Vatican Museums can choose to follow one of four tours marked by different colors that vary in duration from a half hour to five hours. All routes end up at the Sistine Chapel. Even with five-hour tour, it is impossible to see everything, but you can make a good impression about what can be seen in these extraordinary museums.


Hours: Vatican Museums are closed on Sundays, except the last Sunday of the month when there are guided tours available. Other days when museums are closed: 1, 6 January, 11 February, 19 March, 13 April, 1.21 May, 11, 29 June, 15 August, 8, 25, 26 December.

Price: 14 €, reduced € 8 ball. Tickets are valid for museums and the Sistine Chapel. Tickets for guided tours cost up to 41 € depending on the duration of the tour.

Vatican Museums Access is allowed only people with decent outfit. Museums can be closed without prior notice depending on the movement and activities Sfintelui Father.
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