Tha Vatican Museums
Founded by Pope Julius II in 1506 and opened to the public in 1771 by Pope Clement XIV, the Vatican Museums are a monument to world culture.
Visited every year by about 6 million people from all over the world, the Vatican Museums are a collection of museums and galleries that contain one of the most beautiful art collections on the planet.
Museums
The visiting rooms of the Vatican Museums are:
the Vatican Pinacoteca
the Pio-Clementino Museum
the Egyptian Museum, which houses a vast collection of finds from ancient Egypt including papyrus, mummies and the famous Book of the Dead
the Etruscan Museum, which contains works that were discovered at the beginning of the 1800s with archaeological excavations in the cities of Etruria that at the time were part of the Papal States.
Philatelic and Numismatic Museum, which, inaugurated on September 25th 2007, collects all the stamps and coins of the Vatican City, from the moment of its birth (1929) to today
the Carriage Pavilion
the Gallery of Tapestries
the Gallery of Maps, located along the route that leads to the Sistine Chapel, is an exceptional cartographic representation of the regions of Italy, built between 1580 and 1585
the Lapidary Gallery
the Borgia Apartment
the Gallery of the Candelabra
the Stanze di Raffaello, four rooms so called because they were frescoed by the great painter Raffaello Sanzio. The four rooms are the Stanza dell'Incendio, the Stanza della Segnatura, the Stanza di Eliodoro and the Sala di Costantino
the Niccolina Chapel, located near the Stanze di Raffaello
and the famous Sistine Chapel
Also known as the Vatican Rooms, the Raphael Rooms are four rooms in sequence in the Vatican Museums and constitute
part of the apartment located on the second floor of the Papal Palace chosen by Julius II della Rovere (pontiff from 1503 to 1513) as his residence
and also used by his successors.
Called so because they were frescoed by the great painter Raffaello Sanzio between 1508 and 1520, the four rooms are:
Room of the Segnatura, where the most important Tribunal of the Holy See met and which houses the most famous frescoes by
Raphael, including the Disputation of the Sacrament and the School of Athens
Room of Heliodorus, which was used by Julius II for private audiences and on whose walls Raphael painted four biblical episodes, including
the Liberation of St. Peter
Room of the Fire in the Borgo, takes its name from the fire that broke out in 847 in the neighborhood in front of the Basilica of St. Peter
Hall of Constantine, with frescoes dedicated to the life of Constantine, who was the first Roman emperor to officially recognize
the Christian religion
