Vatican Museum by shutterbugs

Photography • Architecture • posted on Jun 28, 2008

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The Vatican Museum is the public art and sculpture museum in the Vatican City, which display works from the extensive collection of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Julius II founded the museums in the 16th century. The Sistine Chapel and the Stanze della Segnatura decorated by Raphael are on the visitor route through the Vatican Museums. As of November 2006, it was visited by more than 4,000,000 people for the year.