Vatican Museums

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art museum complex museum system tourist attraction

The Vatican Museums are a vast complex of art and historical museums in Vatican City, renowned for their extensive collections including the Sistine Chapel and masterpieces spanning from ancient to Renaissance art.

Aliases (16)

Sistine Chapel ×2
Vatican Museums administration ×2
Chiaramonti Museum ×1
Cortile del Belvedere, Vatican ×1
Holy See collections ×1
Musei Vaticani ×1
Pinacoteca Vaticana ×1
Pio-Clementine Museum ×1
Raphael Rooms ×1
Raphael's Stanze in the Vatican ×1
Vatican Museums Christian collections ×1
Vatican Museums Directorate ×1
Vatican Museums and Palaces complex ×1
Vatican Museums complex ×1
Vatican Museums itinerary ×1
museums of Vatican City ×1

Statements (61)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	art museum complex → museum system → tourist attraction →
associatedWithReligion	Roman Catholic Church →
collectionIncludes	Christian art → Egyptian antiquities → Etruscan antiquities → Renaissance paintings → ancient Greek art → ancient Roman art → classical sculpture → ethnological collections → frescoes → maps → medieval art → tapestries →
containsWorkBy	Bernini → Canova → Caravaggio → Fra Angelico → Giotto → Leonardo da Vinci → Michelangelo → Perugino → Raphael → Titian →
country	Vatican City →
foundedBy	Pope Julius II →
hasOnlinePresence	official website →
hasPart	Borgia Apartments → Braccio Nuovo → Carriage Pavilion → Chiaramonti Museum → Ethnological Museum Anima Mundi → Gallery of Maps → Gallery of Tapestries → Gallery of the Candelabra → Gregorian Egyptian Museum → Gregorian Etruscan Museum → Pinacoteca Vaticana → Pio-Christian Museum → Pio-Clementine Museum → Raphael Rooms → Sistine Chapel → Vatican Historical Museum →
heritageDesignation	part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Vatican City →
inception	16th century →
languageOfOfficialName	Italian →
locatedIn	Rome metropolitan area → Vatican City →
mainEntrance	Viale Vaticano, Vatican City →
notableWork	Sistine Chapel ceiling → The Last Judgment → The School of Athens →
officialName	Musei Vaticani →
operatedBy	Holy See →
ownedBy	Holy See →
partOf	Vatican City →
significantEvent	opening of public access in the 18th century →
touristAttractionType	cultural tourism →
visitorStatistics	one of the most visited museums in the world →

Referenced by (26)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Apostolic Palace ("Sistine Chapel") → Apostolic Palace ("Raphael Rooms") → Vatican Museums ("Pio-Clementine Museum") → Vatican Museums ("Pinacoteca Vaticana") → Vatican Museums ("Chiaramonti Museum") →	hasPart
Pio-Christian Museum ("Holy See collections") → Pio-Christian Museum ("Vatican Museums Christian collections") → Pio-Christian Museum ("Vatican Museums itinerary") → Sala Regia ("Vatican Museums and Palaces complex") → Sistine Chapel ("Vatican Museums complex") →	partOf
Vatican City ("Sistine Chapel") → Vatican City → Vatican Hill →	contains
Carriage Pavilion ("Vatican Museums administration") → Ethnological Museum Anima Mundi ("Vatican Museums Directorate") →	governedBy
Vulci →	artifactsInMuseum
Pope Julius II ("Raphael's Stanze in the Vatican") →	commissioned
Governorate of Vatican City State ("Vatican Museums administration") →	hasJurisdictionOver
Rongorongo →	heldIn
Vatican City institutions →	includes
Papal tiara →	keptAt
St. Peter's Basilica →	near
Donato Bramante ("Cortile del Belvedere, Vatican") →	notableWork
Vatican Museums ("Musei Vaticani") →	officialName
Parthenon sculptures →	partiallyLocatedIn
Governorate of Vatican City State ("museums of Vatican City") →	responsibleFor