The Vatican Museum

The Vatican Palaces is an enormous construction with over 1400 rooms, host the precious Vatican Museums. A collection of antiquities, the most outstanding in the world, is gathered in the Pio Clementino Museum and the Chiaramonti Museum. However, the great Italian and European collection of paintings is kept in the eighteen rooms of the Vatican Picture Gallery, built by Luca Beltrami for Pope Pius XI.