Vatican Museums

There are also restrooms on every floor of the Vatican museums.

Nobody else ever did, in the Vatican museums.

The exhibition featured 300 works of art from the collections of Vatican museums.

The Vatican museums are also, in fact, open at night, at least on Fridays through the fall.

After his death his young widow sold to the Vatican museums the antiquities which he had excavated.

Since then, the Vatican museums have become immensely rich in art and in liturgical and world history.

Another re-interpretation of the mythological past can be seen on an amphora kept in the Vatican Museums (344).

To the Editor: I recently returned from a trip to Italy where we visited the Vatican museums.

Note that entrance fees to the Vatican Museums are NOT included.

As an added bonus, you'll skip the long ticket lines when you visit the Vatican Museums (entrance fees payable direct on the day of travel).

We must remember that the cardinals spent much of today in the Vatican museums and St. Peter's Basilica, enjoying those areas without the crowds.

His name vase is an amphora, Vatican 16571, in the Vatican museums depicting Achilles.

Then we found the telephone number for the Vatican museums and were able to talk to someone who arranged a wheelchair for us and gave us instructions.

It's almost blasphemy to go to Rome and skip the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican museums.

The Vatican museums and library, for instance, have broadened communication with outside scholars, and a longstanding tradition of not lending Vatican treasures has been reversed.

The Vatican Library and the collections of the Vatican Museums are of the highest historical, scientific and cultural importance.

Dr. Francesco Riccardi, administrator of the Vatican museums, said sales figures were confidential, but allowed that they went up during the Holy Year.

After skipping the line, you can explore the Vatican Museums at your leisure, including the famous Sistine Chapel and Raphael's Rooms.

It's also the anniversary of the Catholic Church's Swiss Guard, the Vatican museums, and St. Peter's Basilica.

But with the introduction of two reservation services within the past year, it is now possible to get around the long lines at many museums (but not, alas, at the Vatican museums).

Nazzareno Gabrielli, the Vatican museums' director of scientific research, was one of several restorers eager to enhance the reputation of the 15th-century artists - even at Michelangelo's expense.

The pope left Rome to avoid meeting Hitler during the dictator's May 1938 state visit to Italy, denounced the Swastika flags in the city, and closed Vatican museums.

A bronze mirror from Tuscania dated to 350 BC also in the Vatican Museums (Museo Gregoriano Etrusco E. S. 1.

Carlo Pietrangeli, an archeologist and director of the Vatican museums who oversaw the restoration of Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, died Friday in Rome.

The original was presented by Sultan Abdul Hamid to Leo XIII, and is preserved in the Vatican Museums (ex Lateranense collection).