Following extensive restorations, the Vatican Museums is opening the largest of the Raphael Rooms to the public. Located in ...

But when it comes to talking about our two experiences visiting the Vatican Museum on different trips to Rome, we can confidently tell you that we did it horribly the first time and perfectly the ...

Italy Vatican Museums staff launch legal bid to demand better treatment, challenging Pope Francis' administration The complaint, dated April 23, cited health and security risks due to cost-saving ...

Before COVID-19, guides and tourists clamored for a less crowded, more enjoyable experience at the museums. But museum leaders were slow to make changes at the highest-grossing Vatican enterprise.

FILE - Museums employees walk down an aisle of the Vatican Museums as they prepare to open the museum, at the Vatican, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021.

TRAVEL ADVISORY;Vatican Museums Show A Spruced-Up Raphael. Raphael's masterwork fresco, "The School of Athens," which decorates the library and study of Pope Julius II in the Vatican Museums, can ...

The Belvedere Palace, which dates back to 1484 and houses precious art of the Vatican Museums, is currently being re-painted with milk.

ROME, Italy — Scaffolding in a niche of the Vatican Museums’ Round Hall conceal from view the work of restorers who are removing centuries of grime from the largest known bronze statue of the ...

The Vatican Museums have announced a series of novelties beginning both this month and after the new year, in anticipation of the 2025 Jubilee Year. Beginning Nov. 17, the Vatican Museums will ...

VATICAN CITY, May 12 (Reuters) - Forty-nine Vatican Museums employees have started an unprecedented labour dispute over what they say are unfair and poor conditions at their workplace, ...

VATICAN CITY — Ten thousand hours. This is how long it takes to digitally analyze, map and conserve a marble statue, which could well be 2,000 years old. The work is not about restoring the ...

Gianluigi Colalucci, Who Showed Michelangelo’s True Colors, Dies at 91. The chief restorer of the Vatican Museums, he led the cleaning of the Sistine Chapel, a 14-year effort that revealed a new ...