WThe Vatican Museums are the public museums of the Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection amassed by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries, including several of the most renowned Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world. The museums contain roughly 70,000 works, of which 20,000 are on display, and currently employ 640 people who work in 40 different administrative, scholarly, and restoration departments.
WAnima Mundi is a museum of ethnological art and artefacts in the Vatican City. It is part of the Vatican Museums.
WThe Gallery of Maps is a gallery located on the west side of the Belvedere Courtyard in the Vatican containing a series of painted topographical maps of Italy based on drawings by friar and geographer Ignazio Danti.
WBarbara Jatta is an Italian art historian who has been the director of the Vatican Museums since June 2016.
WGiuseppe Momo (1875–1940) was an Italian architect and engineer, perhaps best known for the Bramante Staircase in the Vatican Museums cast by Ferdinando Marinelli Artistic Foundry of Florence and the Pontifical Ethiopian College.
WThe Museo Pio Cristiano is one of the Vatican Museums. It houses various works of Christian antiquity.
WThe Sala Regia is a state hall in the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City.
WScala Regia is a flight of steps in the Vatican City and is part of the formal entrance to the Vatican. It was designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
WHermine "Erminia" Speier was a German archaeologist. One of the few female archaeologists of her time, she was the first female employee of the Vatican Museums and one of the first professional women to be employed by the Vatican. She was a pioneering contributor to the collections of archaeological photographs and is often credited as being the first archaeological photo-archivist.
WThe Vatican Historical Museum is one of the sections of the Vatican Museums. It was founded in 1973 at the behest of Pope Paul VI, and was initially hosted in environments under the Square Garden. In 1987 it was moved to the main floor of the Apostolic Palace of the Lateran and opened in March 1991.