The Vatican Museums and the museums complex at Castel Gandolfo, in a papal residence 30km from Rome, will remain shut "in mourning", the Museums Directorate announced. Castel Sant’Angelo—a ...

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As per the website, entry into any of the Vatican museums, the Sistine Chapel and St Peter's Basilica has a strict dress code - with no sleeveless and/or low-cut garments, shorts above the knee, ...

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Fewer visitors to the Vatican museums meant declining profits, while growing secularization reduces donations to the papal fund known as Peter’s Pence, which goes to support the Curia and its ...

"We're not canceling our tours, but guests will visit the museum without seeing the Sistine Chapel." Pilgrims gathered to listen to Pope John Paul II during the 2000 Jubilee in St. Peter's Square at ...

Ashley Tran, 30, and Phuoc Nguyen, 33, joined mourners in the queue at St Peter’s Square in the Vatican ‘Everything happens for a reason.’ This is what Ashley Tran, 30, told Metro while ...

Every year, the museum does exhibitions for Black History Month, Women’s History Month and Pride Month, opening the galleries to the student body for a lunch period. This year, Xu designed a pam ...

Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te will not attend the funeral of Pope Francis, despite making requests to the Vatican, a move that breaks with precedent and removes a rare opportunity to mix with ...

The official website of the Vatican Museums, the organisation monitoring tourism to the holy site, says photography inside the famous chapel is banned. “In the Sistine Chapel it is forbidden to take ...

However, photography and the use of electronic photography is strictly prohibited inside the holy site, according to the Vatican Museum's website. The image soon sparked a backlash, with many ...