Museo Pio Cristiano

Museo Pio Cristiano

The Museo Pio Cristiano is one of the Vatican Museums. It houses various works of Christian antiquity.[1]

The museum was founded by Pope Pius IX in 1854,[2] two years after the establishment of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology.

  1. ^ "Pius-Christian Museum – Vatican Museums". www.museivaticani.va. Retrieved 2018-05-07.
  2. ^ "Pio-Christian Museum". www.vaticanstate.va. Retrieved 2018-05-07.