Vatican Museums - The Pride of Rome

Located on the Vatican Viale in Rome, the Vatican Museums are one of the largest museums in the world. This magnificent architectural masterpiece is a precious asset of the Roman capital and the Vatican. It houses many valuable works of art from the vast collections built up by the Roman Catholic Church over the centuries.

The entire museum complex comprises 12 exhibition halls and 5 corridors housing and displaying masterpieces by the two renowned painters Raphael and Michelangelo, as well as collections from Roman, Greek, and Egyptian civilizations.

Within the museum grounds, the most famous structure is the Sistine Chapel, built during the pontificate of Pope Sixtus IV Della Rovere in the late 15th century. This is also where cardinals meet to elect a new Pope and where summit meetings between the Pope and heads of state take place.

But above all, it houses Michelangelo's two paintings, "Genesis" and "The Last Judgment," painted on the ceiling and walls. Four hundred years after their creation, these two paintings continue to amaze and inspire the world. Michelangelo spent exactly four years (1508-1512) painting the scenes from "Genesis" on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, lying on a wooden frame and looking up at the ceiling to do so.

Besides its priceless masterpieces of painting and sculpture from hundreds of years ago, the Vatican Museum also attracts visitors with its spiral staircase and endless curved arches adorned with hundreds of elaborate paintings.

Every year, the Vatican Museums attract millions of visitors who come to admire the masterpieces of architecture, sculpture, and painting that have remained intact for centuries.

Huong Thao