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Vatican Museums

From a papal sculpture to a vast museum route The Vatican Museums are a collection of museums and galleries inside Vatican City, reached from Viale Vaticano in Rome. Their history is often traced to 1506, when Pope Julius II acquired the ancient Laocoön group after its discovery on the Esquiline Hill and placed it on display in the Vatican’s sculpture courtyard. A single celebrated antiquity became the beginning of a much larger papal collection, expanded…...