VATICAN CITY — Visitors to the Vatican Museums must show a pass certifying full vaccination or recovery from COVID-19 and wear medical-grade masks under new measures announced on Wednesday.

The Vatican Museums are planning to reopen to the public next month with strict new COVID-19 measures.

A Vatican City official said that the Vatican Museums will have new measures and protocols in place to ensure the safety of visitors when they reopen.

Pope Francis has decided to give the Greek Orthodox archbishop of Athens three fragments of Parthenon sculptures that have been kept in the Vatican Museums for centuries.

In the technology support department at the Vatican Museums, Villanova University student Justin Myers is spending a semester creating virtual tours of galleries, part of a larger project to make ...

VATICAN CITY — Inmates of a Rome prison met with Pope Francis Monday morning at the Vatican, before making a visit to the Vatican Museums. The group of around 20 prisoners met Pope Francis ...

As coronavirus restrictions eased slightly in most parts of Italy Feb. 1, the Vatican Museums reopened to the public after a three-month closure. Mandatory online booking and several safety measures ...

According to the Vatican Museums website, the sculpture was found in 1506 on the Esquiline Hill in Rome and immediately identified as the Laocoön described by Pliny the Elder as a masterpiece of ...