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 The Vatican Museums as seen from the dome of St. Peter's Basilica | |
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| Established | 1506 |
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| Location |  Vatican City |
| Coordinates | 41°54′23″N 12°27′16″E / 41.90639°N 12.45444°E |
| Type | Art museum |
| Collection size | 70,000[1] |
| Visitors | 5,080,856 (2022)[2] |
| Director | Barbara Jatta[3] |
| Public transit access |  Ottaviano – San Pietro – Musei Vaticani |
| Website | www |
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The Vatican Museums (Italian: Musei Vaticani; Latin: Musea Vaticana) are the public museums of Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection amassed by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries, including several of the most well-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,[1] and currently employs 640 people who work in 40 different administrative, scholarly, and restoration departments.[4]
Pope Julius II founded the museums in the early 16th century.[5] The Sistine Chapel, with its ceiling and altar wall decorated by Michelangelo, and the Stanze di Raffaello (decorated by Raphael) are on the visitor route through the Vatican Museums.[6]
In 2023, the Vatican Museums were visited by 6.8 million people.[7] They ranked second in the list of most-visited art museums in the world after the Louvre, and third on the list of most-visited museums.[8]
There are 24 galleries, or rooms, in total, with the Sistine Chapel, notably, being the last room visited within the Museum.[9]
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- ^ The Art Newspaper, March 27, 2023
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- ^ Jatta, Barbara (16 October 2016). "The Vatican Museums: transformation of an organisation" (PDF). Vatican Museums. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 August 2017. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
- ^ Bianchini, Riccardo (30 August 2017). "Vatican Museums – Rome". Inexhibit. Archived from the original on 9 December 2022. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
- ^ "Musei Vaticani and Cappella Sistina". Time Out Rome. Archived from the original on 2023-05-30. Retrieved 2021-10-17.
- ^ "Vatican Museums: attendance 2022". Statista. Archived from the original on 2024-01-28. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
- ^ The Art Newspaper visitor survey, March 27, 2023.
- ^ "The Vatican Museums". www.romesightseeing.net. Archived from the original on 2021-10-17. Retrieved 2021-10-16.
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