Museo Pio Cristiano Explained

The Museo Pio Cristiano is one of the Vatican Museums. It houses various works of Christian antiquity.^[1]

The museum was founded by Pope Pius IX in 1854,^[2] two years after the establishment of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology.

See also

• Vatican Gallery of Maps

External links

• Vatican Museum Tickets
• The Vatican: spirit and art of Christian Rome, a book from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on the museum (pp. 176–189)

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Notes and References

1. Web site: Pius-Christian Museum – Vatican Museums . www.museivaticani.va . en . 2018-05-07.
2. Web site: Pio-Christian Museum. www.vaticanstate.va. 2018-05-07.