Vatican City Guide (with Map)

3- Art Gallery (Pinacotheca):

The Vatican Art Gallery (Pinacotheca), founded by Pius VI, displays religious paintings in chronological order from the Middle Ages to the present.

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Entrance of Pinacoteca – Vatican Art Gallery

Francesco di Gentile - the 'Madonna of the Butterfly' - Vatican Art Gallery

Giovan Francesco Barbier (1591-1666) - St. John the Baptist - Vatican Art Gallery

Pieter van Aelst, Tapestry of the Last Supper taken from the work of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) - Vatican Museums

Pieter van Aelst, Tapestry with the Supper in Emmaus (XVI century) - Vatican Museums

Pinacoteca, Vatican Museums Lorenzo di Credi (1459-1537) - Madonna of the Milk - Art Gallery

Raphael - The Annunciation - Art Gallery of Vatican

St Margaret and stories from her life, c1400 - Vatican Art Gallery

Tapestry of the Last Supper Taken from the work of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). Vatican

Titian - Portrait of Nicolo Marcello - Vatican Art Gallery

Titian (c1490-1576) - La Madonna dei Frari, 1520-25. - Vatican Art Gallery

Vatican Art Gallery - Giovanni Santi (1439 - 1494) - St Jerome enthroned

Vatican Art Gallery - Nicolaus and Johannes - Final Judgment-11th century.

Vatican Art Gallery - Pier Francesco Mola - The penitent St. Jerome

Vatican Art Gallery -Bernardino di Mariotto dello Stagno (c1478-1566) - Adoration of the Magi

Vatican Art Gallery Niccolo and Giovanni - Last Judgement

4-Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani)

The 12-museum complex is the biggest in the world, with 1,400 rooms! To do them justice, however, requires more time than most people can spare. You should probably brave the crowds and see its high spots—the Stanze di Raffaello and the Sistine Chapel (Cappella Sistina) and then visit the remaining galleries (7km/4 miles of walking in all) according to whether you are interested in Etruscan art, classical statuary, archaeology, Egyptian artefacts, Renaissance painting, books, maps, manuscripts, tapestries, furnishings, or any other of the museums’ myriad treasures.

People waiting to enter the Vatican Museums.

Opening times for the Vatican museums change from year to year.

Vatican Museums Opening Hours: Monday – Saturday: 9am – 6pm. Closed except the last Sunday of each month.

At present they are open Mar-Oct, Mon-Fri 8.45- 4.45, Sat 8.45- 1.45: Nov-Mar, Mon-Sat 8.45-1.45. Closed Sun all year round, except for the last Sun of the month (excluding public holidays) when admission is free and the museums open 9-1. Occasionally staff shortages or other problems lead to one or more of the museums being summarily closed.

Explore our Vatican Museums Gallery:

An ancient Egyptian mummy

Ancient mosaic with a bust of Athena at the Greek Cross Hall.Pio Clementino Museum.Papal palace complex ( Famous Roman museum and landmark ).Europe

Ancient statue of Laocoon and his Sons in Vatican, Italy. The Trojan Laocoon was strangled by sea snakes with his two sons

Battle of Ostia. The fresco of the 16th century in one of the rooms of Raphael (Stanze di Raffaello) in the Vatican Museum.

Colossal statue of queen Tuya in Gregorian Egyptian Museum.

Coronation of Charlemagne in Vatican Museum, Rome, Italy. The Renaissance painting in one of the Raphael's rooms. Charlemagne in the fresco of the 16th century.

Double spiral stairs in the Vatican Museums, Rome, Italy. View of the old spiral staircase from above. Tourists descend the beautiful spiral stairs.

Fontana della Pigna (or the Pine cone, 1st century AD) depicts a giant Pine Cone - former Roman fountain in court of the Pigna (Cortile della Pigna).

Inside the Vatican Museum, one of the largest museums in the world, Vatican. Gallery of ancient sculptures. Italy.

interiors and architectural details of Raphael rooms in Vatican museum, june 12, 2015, in Vatican city, Vatican

Raphael, detail of Plato and Aristotle in center, School of Athens, 1509-1511, fresco (Stanza della Segnatura, Palazzi Pontifici, Vatican)

Interior display of Vatican Museum, Musei di Vaticani, Rome - Italy.

Long lines of tourists and believers outside the entrance of Vatican City, walls of Vatican, Rome

Paintings on the walls and the ceiling in the Gallery of Maps, at the Vatican Museum. It was established in 1506-5

Paintings on the walls and the ceiling in the Gallery of Maps, at the Vatican Museum. It was established in 1506 (2)

Paintings on the walls and the ceiling in the Gallery of Maps, at the Vatican Museum. It was established in 1506

Gallery of the Maps. Paintings on the walls and the ceiling at the Vatican Museum, dating from 1506AD.

Pio-Clementine Museum (Museo Pio - Clementino) in Vatican Museums. Gallery of Statues and Hall of Busts. Collection consists of statues discovered in and around Rome.

Roman marble sculptures from Museums of Vatican. Exhibition hall with lots to people

Sarcophagus of Helena (the mother of the emperor Constantine the Great) in the Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museum, Rome

Sphere within sphere at Cortile della Pigna in Vatican

Statue of Hercules in the Vatican Museum.

The ceiling in Borgia Apartments in the Vatican Palace, Vatican Museums

The ceiling in one of the rooms of Raphael (Stanze di Raffaello) in the Vatican Museum, Rome, Italy.

The Vatican museums - aerial view from St. Peter s Basilica in Rome

tourists take photo of ceiling Gallery of the Candelabra in Pio-Clementino Museum in Vatican museums. This gallery takes its name from the massive marble candelabra

Tourists visiting the statues in the halls of the Vatican Museums in Rome, Italy

Vatican, Rome, Italy. Tapestry Jesus Christ's revival

visitors near statues, Hercules figure and round monolithic porphyry basin in Round Room of Pio-Clementino Museum in Vatican museums in Vatican city

5-Academy of Sciences

The Pontifical Academy of Sciences has its roots in the Academy of the Lynxes -Accademia dei Lincei- which was established in Rome in 1603 as the very first specifically scientific academy on the planet. The Pontifical Academy of Sciences is worldwide in scope, multi-racial in composition, and non-sectarian in its option of members. The work of the Academy makes up 6 significant locations: Fundamental science; Science and innovation of international issues; Science for the problems of the developing world; Scientific policy; Bioethics; Epistemology.

Rome Vatican Academy of Science

View of Villa Pia (Casina Pio IV) which is now home to Pontifical Academy of Sciences from Vatican Gardens in Rome Italy.

6- Vatican Radio Administration

Vatican Radio was founded by Pope Pius XI following the finalizing of the Lateran Treaty. He wished to utilize modern technology to connect the centre of the Catholic Church with the remainder of the world.

Vatican Radio Administration

7-Monument of St. Peter

Beyond this cliff, greater up the slope, is the geographical centre of the Vatican State. Nearby in the shadow of the Basilica stands a monument to Saint Peter. As a matter of interest this monument formerly stood in the yard of the Vatican Museums and was initially predestined to wind up on Rome’s Janiculum hill in ceremony of the First Vatican Council.