Vatican Museums
Vatican City · founded 1506
The Vatican Museums are the public museums of the Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection amassed by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries, including several of the best-known Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world. The museums contain roughly 70,000 works, of which 20,000 are on display, and currently employ 640 people who work in 40 different administrative, scholarly, and restoration departments.
- Visitors a year
- 6.9MVisitors a year
- Founded
- 1506Founded
What to see
The Creation of Adam
Michelangelo, 1511.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Laocoön and His Sons
Athanadoros, -000.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Apollo Belvedere
Leochares, 35 BC.
At the museum · Photo by Livioandronico2013, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sistine Chapel ceiling
Michelangelo, 1508.
At the museum · Photo by Michelangelo, CC BY-SA 3.0
The School of Athens
Raphael, 1512.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Augustus of Prima Porta
1 BC.
At the museum · Photo by Joel Bellviure, CC BY-SA 4.0
Plan your visit
Hours
Published on the museum’s own site. Confirm on www.museivaticani.va before you travel.
Getting there
Viale Vaticano 6, I-00192 Roma.
On their own site
Opening hours, tickets and current exhibitions are on the museum’s own site.
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