Located in Viale Vaticano - Rome, the Vatican Museum is one of the largest museums in the world. This great architectural work is a precious asset of the capital of Rome and the Vatican. It displays many precious works of art from the large collections built up by the Roman Catholic Church over the centuries.
St. Peter's Square
Vatican Museums grounds
The entire Museum area has 12 exhibition halls and 5 corridors preserving and displaying masterpieces of two famous painters Raphael and Michelangelo and collections of Roman, Greek and Egyptian civilizations.
The dome seen from afar
Outside the museum
In the museum area, the most famous is the Sistine Chapel built under Pope Sixtus IV Della Rovere in the late 15th century. This is also where the Cardinals met to elect a new Pope and where summits between the Pope and heads of state took place.
Inside the museum
Sculpture exhibition area
But above all, it is the place that holds Michelangelo's two paintings "Genesis" and "The Last Judgment" painted on the ceiling and on the wall. Four hundred years have passed since their creation, and the two paintings still amaze and amaze the world. Michelangelo spent exactly four years (1508 - 1512) painting scenes from the book of Genesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and had to lie on a wooden platform facing the ceiling to paint.
The Creation of Adam (Michelangelo, 1508-1512)
School of Athens (Raphael)
The Last Judgment (Michelangelo, 1508-1512)
Artwork painted on the walls and ceilings
In addition to the precious masterpieces of painting and sculpture from hundreds of years ago, the Vatican Museum also attracts visitors with its spiral staircase and endless curved domes decorated with hundreds of elaborate paintings.
Spiral staircase
Garden at the Vatican Museums
Every year, the Vatican Museum attracts millions of visitors to come and admire the architectural, sculptural and painting masterpieces that have remained intact for centuries.
Vatican City from above
