The Vatican Museum is ridiculously large, stuffed full of stuff and you have to go thru the entire thing to get what everyone really wants to see (the Sistine Chapel).
This is the Vatican Courtyard... it's called the acorn courtyard because there is a ginat bronze acorn... but the famous acorn was being cleaned so it was all covered up-
Here are some of the smaller museums within the "Vatican Museum"-
It sort of seems like they have so much stuff they don't know what to do with it all, it's all just crammed in with no consideration to time period- basically some Pope's liked to collect stuff, and those Popes would build halls to house it in. No rhyme, no reason to where or why things are in any one place.
Here are some other random pictures.
Gorgeous, right? And all roads at the Vatican lead to the Sistine Chapel.
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