Vatican Museum : Gallery of Maps

The Gallery of the Maps contains  forty 16th century maps of the different parts of Italy frescoed onto the walls along the long corridor. It also has a very  impressive ceiling.

A serious photographer

Vatican Museum : Gallery of Tapestries

The Gallery of the Tapestries has two sets of tapestries from the 15th and 17th century; one showing gospel scenes from the life of Jesus done by Raphael's students and the other set are scenes from the life of Pope Urban VIII.

The Massacre of the Innocents

The Resurrection of Christ

It took 9 years to finish just one tapestry. They are made from the most precious materials like gold thread, silk, silver thread and wool.

Vatican Museum : Etruscan Museum

We walked quickly past this Etruscan Museum as we wanted to concentrate on the other parts of the museum.

Mars of Todi

Vatican Museum : Pio-Clementine Museum

The finest of the Vatican's Classical statues are on display here. Unfortunately certain sections of the museum were closed.

The Belvedere Torso

An ancient sculpture most admired by artists

Discobolus

We bought a replica of this as a souvenir when we were in Athens

The Goddess of Fertility

Vatican Museum : The Egyptian Museum

The Egyptian collection contains finds from 19th and 20th century excavations in Egypt and those that were brought  back to Rome during the Imperial times.

This mummy dates back to 1000 BC

Osiris

God Anubis 

the god of mummification who guided the dead to the underworld clad in a Roman toga

Queen Tuya wife of Sethi

mother of Ramses II

Musei Vaticani

A visit to Rome is incomplete without visiting the Vatican Museum. We decided that we must  visit the museum again

Statue of Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael

We were here in June 2004

Roma Termini

Our hotel is just about 300 m from the Termini metro station. We took the metro from here to the Ottaviano station to go to the Vaticam Museum.

Walking to the museum

It is easy to find as there are signs everywhere. Or just follow the crowd.

The long queue for the tickets