Vatican Museums

The House of Thousand Arts, the Vatican Museum, is one of the most popular art museums in Italy. With around 6 million annual visitors, this site is one of the oldest. Boasting one of the best art collections in the city, the Vatican museums include exhibits that run across around 7 kilometers of corridors and halls. It features over 70,000 artworks, with highlights including the Sistine Chapel, Raphael Rooms, along with ancient Roman and Greek sculptures, the Gallery of Maps, and the Egyptian Museum

The Vatican museums feature 7 km of historically and culturally significant artefacts. Their acquisition of everything from Egyptian mummies to modern paintings is as impressive as their labelling is not. Hire a guide, buy an audio guide or buy a guide book to get the full impact of the centuries of history in these hallowed halls. There are a number of Egyptian mummies, ancient busts, modern paintings, Etruscan bronzes, and old masters. The Vatican Museums are best known for the Museo-Pio Clementino’s renowned collection of classical statuary, a suite created by Rafael and the Sistine Chapel painted by Michelangelo. Often referred to as the museum of museums, this attraction is created around the galleries of Palazzo Apostolico Vaticano and are formed inside three courtyards: Cortile Della Biblioteca, Cortile Della Pigna, and Cortile Del Belvedere. All in all, the Vatican Museums are a collection of ancient as well as masterpieces, sculptures, paintings, and structures, making it one of the museums truly worth visiting in Rome.