Museo Chiaramonti

Experiencia fantástica: At the start of the long, but spectacular visit of the Vaticas Museums, the Chiaramonti Museum offers large Roman and Greek sculptures, such as the centerpiece The River Nile god. At the end, there is a nice interior garden where you take a pitstop before continuing. There will be many, many guided groups. My only advice is to time your walks as such to go before them, because once you get into the next rooms, which will be the Tapestry Gallery and the Gallery of Maps, there will only be one corridor and it will be filled with people.

Experiencia fantástica: Words can not express the feeling of awe that comes over you as you take in everything that's on display.

Experiencia positiva: This is a huge hall that consists of Roman busts and sculptures. The hall was open when we went which was a Wednesday. Takes around 20 min to comfortable view the art work. There are so many statues and busts with very little information about each, but it's worth the visit. The carvings are absolutely beautiful and amazing.

Experiencia positiva: The Chiaramonti Museum is part of the Vatican Museums and takes its name from Pope Pius VII (aka Barnaba Chiaramonti), who founded it in the early nineteenth century. It was set up and ordered by Antonio Canova and consists of three galleries: the Chiaramonti gallery, where numerous sculptures, sarcophagi and friezes are exhibited; the new wing, called Braccio Nuovo, built by Raffaele Stern, which houses famous statues; the lapidary gallery, which contains more than 3,000 pieces of inscriptions, epigraphs and monuments, which represent the largest collection of this type of artifacts in the world. However, it is open to visitors only on request, generally for study purposes.

Experiencia positiva: There is soo much too see! This part is also covered in the short walk through the museum, so if you're here anyway, stop by and look at some of the artwork! They also displayed parts of carved column-parts which was really nice, as you can't look at the detailed pictures on the larger columns standing, for instance, in the roman forum