Museums
Papal Basilicas
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Avoid the queue by booking your admission ticket or guided tour.
The admission ticket gives the right to visit the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel. |
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The Latin "quiz" comes to the Vatican Museums!
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"Examen Publicum Vaticanum": that's the name of the event scheduled for 20 December and promoted jointly by the Austrian Embassy to the Holy See and the Vatican Museums. In an exceptional artistic framework, the students of two high schools, one in Austria and the other in Liechtenstein, will challenge each other in a contest in Latin on the theme of Christmas. Each team will be able to avail itself of the help of so-called "telephone wild cards". [More]
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"A Treasure Hunt" with Mum and Dad!
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The Vatican Museums presents the Family Tour, the latest of didactic initiatives designed ad hoc for families visiting with their kids. Young visitors are able to discover the treasures of the museums in an original and fun way by listening to a modern audio-guide while following an illustrated map. [More]
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The Vatican Radio is eighty years old!
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On 12 February 1931 the Papal radio station broadcasts for the first time a speech in Latin by Pope Pius XI. In honour of this special occasion, on 10 February 2011, the Vatican Museums are giving a presentation of the celebratory programme for the whole year of 2011. The Vatican Museums are dedicating an area in which films, images and vintage equipment belonging to the Vatican Radio are being exhibited.
 80 years of sounds and images
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Greetings from the Director
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Dear Visitors, firstly, a cordial welcome from the Director of the Vatican Museums. Second, you are entering into one of the most important sites for the history of human... [Continues]
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- Virtual online Tour of the Vatican Museums (explore the Sistine Chapel)
- 3 selections of 'must-see' works
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The Vatican Museums are among the promoters of the conference being held in the Vatican on 3 February 2012 and dedicated to the complex figure of Giorgio Torraca, leading scientist in the field of restoration, who died in September 2010. Enrolment obligatory. |
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Publishing news
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Antonio Paolucci's new book "Arte e Bellezza" has been published by La Scuola Editrice. Quizzed about the nature of beauty, the Director of the Vatican |
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Museums, in this book of conversations with Carolina Drago, offers a striking analysis of the masterpieces of art and, on this basis, discusses such questions as cultural tourism, the art of the future, conservation and dereliction. The book is both a declaration of passionate love for art and a lucid analysis of what is meant by safeguarding the cultural heritage.
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Important restorations
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The Room of the Immaculate, decorated with a cycle of frescoes by Francesco Podesti, is located in the Borgia Tower next to the Raphael's Rooms. |
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The restoration of the Bernini Angels for the Cathedra and the Blessed Sacrament Chapel in St. Peter's Basilica is underway in the "open laboratory". |
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Everyday thousands of tourists walk through the evocative Room of the Tributes as they leave the Sistine Chapel. |
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