Vatican Museum II, Rome, Italy

The Vatican Museum has many smaller museums inside.  In this post, you can see the Gregorian Etruscan Museum, Gregorian Egyptian Museum, and Modern and Contemporary Art.

The Vatican Museum: 00120 Vatican City

Looking at the museum hallway that leads to the Cistern Chapter

Gregorian Etruscan Museum: This museum focuses on Etruscan art and artifacts. The Etruscans were an ancient Italian civilization that existed before the rise of Rome, and their art and culture are well represented in this museum.

Looking down at the The museum courtyard, Pigna Courtyard

To the Gregorian Egyptian Museum

Gregorian Egyptian Museum: This museum is dedicated to the display of Egyptian antiquities. It features a collection of artifacts from ancient Egypt, including mummies, sculptures, and other archaeological finds.

Syria-Palestine Artifacts

Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art

A large section of the Vatican Museums’ itinerary is dedicated to the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art. Emerging from Paul VI’s desire to reinstate the dialogue between the Church and contemporary culture, this young collection covers a time span from the end of the nineteenth century up to the early twentieth century, and enables the visitor to view unexpected masterpieces of the variegated artistic panorama of the nineteenth century.