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Gregorian Pio-Clementine Museum VISITORS’ CHECKLIST
Profane The finest of the Vatican’s
Museum Classical statues are on Practical Information
display here, like the Apollo Città del Vaticano (entrance
Belvedere, a Roman copy in in Viale Vaticano).
marble of a 4th-century-BC Map 1 B2.
Greek bronze. Tel 06 69 88 46 76.
Open 9am–6pm Mon–Sat (last
adm: 4pm); 9am–2pm last Sun
Stairs up to of month (last adm: 12:30pm).
Etruscan Closed religious and public hols.
Museum Special permit required for
Raphael Loggia, Vatican Library,
Lapidary Gallery and Vatican
Archives. & free last Sun of
month. 7 special routes.
- 0 = ∑ mv.vatican.va
Transport
Entrance @ 49 to entrance, 23, 81, 492,
990. q Ottaviano San Pietro,
Cipro Musei Vaticani.
Cortile Ottagonale
Lower
floor

Braccio
Nuovo

Egyptian Museum
The collection of Egyptian artifacts includes
this painted bas-relief from a 2400 BC tomb.
The museum was organized by Father
Chiaramonti Ungarelli, a 19th-century Egyptologist.
Museum
The Lapidary Gallery
contains inscriptions from
pagan and Christian
catacombs, but is closed Pio-Christian Museum
to the public.
Early Christianity adopted Classical images
so that its doctrines could be more easily
understood. This 4th-century statue of
Christ as the Good Shepherd derives from
the pastoral figure of the shepherd.

Key to Floorplan
Egyptian and Assyrian art
Pinacoteca Greek and Roman art
The Vatican’s art gallery has Etruscan art
15th- to 19th-century
works, and is particularly Early Christian and Medieval art
strong on the Renaissance. 15th- to 19th-century art
This unfinished painting of Modern religious art
St Jerome by Leonardo da
Vinci reveals his mastery Lapidary Gallery
of anatomy. Non-exhibition space

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