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The Museo Pio Cristiano is one of the
Vatican Museums
The Vatican Museums ( it, Musei Vaticani; la, Musea Vaticana) 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 ...
. It houses various works of Christian antiquity.
The museum was founded by
Pope Pius IX in 1854,
two years after the establishment of the
Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology The Pontifical Commission of Sacred Archaeology ( it, Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia Sacra) is an official board of the Vatican founded in 1852 by Pope Pius IX for the purpose of promoting and directing excavations in the Catacombs of Rome an ...
.
References
External links
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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)
Art museums and galleries in Rome
Art museums established in 1854
Vatican Museums
1854 establishments in the Papal States
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