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THE PIO CLEMENTINO MUSEUM, A ONE-OF-A-KIND INSIDE THE VATICAN MUSEUMS

The Pio Clementino Museum is one of a kind inside the Vatican Museums. It is so special that it needed some extra space to exist. Its purpose is to gather inside a single space all the Ancient Art preserved inside the Museums. In 1771, Pope Clement XIV Ganganelli hired the architect Alessandro Dori to renew the little building of the Belvedere to include the new Pio Clementino’s Museum. Another architect finished the job, Michelangelo Simonetti, the one who designed the open but covered area that today hosts the Laocoonte. Thanks to this project, art was definitely consecrated as a public good, engine of cultural diffusion, economic development, and instrument for the formation of artists. Come visit the Vatican Museums to see this small piece of history!

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