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Vatican Museums
Musei Vaticani
The Vatican Museums are the public museums of the Vatican City, housing a vast collection of classical sculptures, Renaissance masterpieces and later works assembled by the papacy. The visitor route passes through a series of galleries, courtyards and chapels, ending in the Sistine Chapel and including the Raphael Rooms, large sculpture courts and specialised collections.
First raised
1506
Its prime
2019
Today
Still standing
As it stood in 2019
What Vatican Museums looked like in its prime.
A vast complex of connected pale stone and ochre brick wings rising behind a high retaining wall, pierced by a rusticated stone triumphal portal surmounted by a marble sculptural group and the inscription 'MVSEI VATICANI'. Above and behind the wall, arcaded courtyards and low-pitched tiled roofs lead to larger volumes: broad gallery façades, a round drum with paired arched niches and a balustraded cornice topped by standing statues. Interiors consist of long, vaulted galleries, ornate painted ceilings and marble-clad halls and courts.
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