Vatican Museums - Initiatives

Conference “Il cantiere nel Cinquecento: architettura e decorazione. I. Roma”

Mon, 25 Nov 2019 15:05:53 +0100

The Vatican Museums will host, on Tuesday 26 November, the second of the three days of the International study seminar Il cantiere nel Cinquecento: architettura e decorazione. I. Roma (The Cinquecento worksite: architecture and decoration. I. Rome...

Museums at Work

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 18:30:28 +0100

Crivelli’s gold

Mater Amazonia

Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:22:34 +0100

On Monday 28 October the exhibition held in the Vatican Museums, dedicated to earth’s green heart – Mater Amazonia. The deep breath of the world – will be opened to the public. The exhibition is the first to be held in the renovated spaces of the ...

Antico Presente

Thu, 24 Oct 2019 18:47:57 +0200

The second edition of Antico Presente. L’Accademia disegna (Ancient Present. The Academy draws), an exhibition project born of many years of collaboration between the Vatican Museums and the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, will begin on 22 October. ...

Il portico medievale di San Giovanni in Laterano. I frammenti ritrovati

Fri, 04 Oct 2019 10:06:04 +0200

The rediscovery of 42 marble fragments, with inserts in mosaic and the remains of inscriptions, during the reorganization of the storage deposit beneath the Octagonal Courtyard of the Vatican Museums, is at the origin of this new publication, avai...

Napoleone, il Quirinale, i Musei Vaticani. I fregi di José Álvarez Cubero per la Camera da Letto dell’Imperatore

Tue, 01 Oct 2019 12:05:42 +0200

The neo-classical friezes in Napoleon’s Bedchamber in the Quirinale, conserved today in the storerooms of the Vatican Pinacoteca, which have never been on public display, recover their historic and artistic identity thanks to this volume, availabl...

Collections in dialogue

Fri, 11 Oct 2019 08:20:52 +0200

A masterpiece from the National Archaeological Museum of Florence recounted by the Vatican Museums

The plates of Castel Gandolfo

Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:42:38 +0100

Awaiting their permanent exhibition in the Pope’s Museums - and in the wake of the exhibition held last year in the Vatican Pinacoteca - the 34 precious istoriato ceramic plates of the Carpegna Collection will return from Tuesday 9 October to be v...

Museums at Work

Tue, 05 Nov 2019 16:29:33 +0100

Clare of Montefalco and Jean d’Amiel

The Collection of Palmyrene Funerary Portraits in the Musei Vaticani. Notes and observations

Thu, 01 Aug 2019 09:14:38 +0200

A Supplement to the Bollettino dei Monumenti, Musei e Gallerie Pontificie (Bulletin of Monuments, Museums and Pontifical Galleries), available in English and dedicated to the collection of funerary portraits from the ancient city of Palmyra, an ar...

The Sistine Chapel

Tue, 30 Jul 2019 18:16:27 +0200

Photographic volume, in bilingual version – Italian and English – also available in a prestigious edition in slipcase, dedicated to the Sistine Chapel. The remarkable colour images offered here, of whole works and full page details, are the fruit ...

The paintings of the Vatican Museums

Wed, 31 Jul 2019 10:01:33 +0200

Photographic volume, in bilingual version – Italian and English – also available in a prestigious edition in slipcase, dedicated to the paintings conserved in the Vatican Museums. Richly illustrated with splendid colour images offering an extensiv...

Bollettino dei Monumenti Musei e Gallerie Pontificie. XXXV, 2017

Fri, 26 Jul 2019 12:10:09 +0200

35th edition of the scientific periodical published by the Vatican Museums, including surveys, studies and reports of excavations, discoveries, acquisitions and restorations carried out by the experts who work or collaborate in the departments and...

Plečnik and the Sacred

Wed, 03 Jul 2019 10:56:24 +0200

Jože Plečnik (1872-1957), is the first Slovenian artist whose work is to be displayed in the Pope’s Museums from 28 June to 7 September in an exhibition entitled “Plečnik and the Sacred. Jože Plečnik, Slovenian architect and designer”. For the sp...

The Pope’s Museums in China

Mon, 27 May 2019 11:02:09 +0200

Masterpieces on display in the Forbidden City, Beijing

Presentation of the book “The wooden Crucifix of Saint Peter's Basilica”

Fri, 24 May 2019 15:41:44 +0200

The Director Barbara Jatta will introduce, on Wednesday 29 May, the presentation of the volume edited by Pietro Zander, “The wooden Crucifix of Saint Peter's Basilica”: the new publication dedicated to the venerated sculpture of the first decades ...

On the trail of Leonardo in France

Wed, 15 May 2019 14:01:44 +0200

The enigma of the tapestry of the Last Supper

Extraordinary opening of the Scala Santa

Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:57:36 +0100

The original marble steps now accessible

A special “Friday of Beauty”

Sat, 28 Sep 2019 09:15:24 +0200

Special advantages and reductions for those who, every Friday, from 26 April to 6 September, wish to combine an evocative evening visit to the Pope’s Museums with an afternoon viewing of the Giudizio Universale. Michelangelo and the Secrets of the...

Night Openings 2019

Thu, 29 Aug 2019 10:52:21 +0200

On Friday 26 April the 2019 edition of the special night openings of the Vatican Museums will begin, offering until 25 October a unique experience in terms of atmosphere, artistic beauty and musical off...