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Vatican Museums - Rome
The Vatican Museums represent the final result of a long work of collection started by Pope Giulio 2nd, including different kinds of art works.
He began to collect sculptural works to be placed at the Gardens of Belvedere. We must wait other 2 centuries until Clemente 12th, in year 1734, founds the Capital Museum (hosted in a building designed by Michelangelo), and after this, other two small museums of sacred and profane art, respectively in year 1756 and 1767.
Today under the name of Vatican Museums are included the Gregorian Egyptian Museum, the Etruscan Gregorian Museum, the Museum of Classical Antiquities, the Pio Christian Museum, the Art Gallery, the Gallery of the Tapestries, the Missionary-Ethnological Museum, the Sacred Museum, the Profane Museum, the Historic Vatican Museum.
Always in the circuit of the Vatican Museums are also open to the public the following museums: the Palazzetto del Belvedere, the Ladies’ Room, the Room of the Immaculate Conception, Raphael’s rooms, la Chiaroscuri room the Niccolina Chapel, Borgia’s Apartment, the Sistine Hall, the Room of the Aldobrandine’s Wedding, and, above all, the real masterpiece of the Museums: the Sistine Chapel.
Vatican City
Fax for group reservations : 06.698.85100
Fax for single reservations : 06.698.84019
Opening hours: from 10.00 am to 12.30 pm or from 10.00 am to 13.30 pm, or from 10.00 am to 15.30 pm according to days
Closed on: Sunday, with the exception of the last Sunday of the month, unless it falls on Ester Day, 29th June(feast of the Patron saints Peter and Paul), 25th or 26th December (Christmas day or Saint Stephen’s day) 1st and 6th January; 11th February, 19th March, 8th and 9th April
(Easter and Monday festivity); 1st , 17th May(Ascension); 7th June (Corpus Domini); 29th June; 15-16th August; 1st November; 8th December (Immaculate Conception); 25-26th December.
The closed sectors are indicated at the entrance gate. Access to the Museums is permitted only to people wearing decorous clothing.
Full rate ticket: 13 Euro
Discounted ticket: 8 Euro( reserved to pilgrims; students under 26 showing a student card; young people under 18).
Special ticket: 4 Euro, valid in the months of November-December-January-February for all primary and secondary schools, no matter where they are from (with the exclusion of universities), upon showing of a letter, written on headed paper of the school, duly signed and stamped by the school’s director, with the indication of the total number of students, teachers and potential assistants. The discounted fare is also granted to one teacher every 12 students.
Free admission: Every last Sunday of the month; 27th September (world tourism day); kids under the age of 6; Museum’s directors; associations and institutions charged with the tutelage of the archaeological, artistic and historical heritage; invalid people (100% recognized invalidity) and their assistants (one each); journalists authorized by the Museum Board of Directors upon invitation from the Press Room of the Holy See, from the Pontifical Council of Social Communication; from the Foreign Press Association and from the Italian Journalist Association; members of the Icom (“the International Council of Museums”) and Icomos (“International Council of Monuments and Sites”); donors of works and benefactors; patrons and friends of the Vatican Museums; university professors of the faculty of Archaeology, Art History, Architecture and Ethnology.
Also, any academy with seat in Rome may occasionally hold lectures in the specific sectors of the museums relative to their competences, upon written request to the Museum Board of Directors.
In any case, the acceptance of the request by the Museum Direction does not allow the visit outside these specific sectors.
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