The Vatican Museums (Italian: Musei Vaticani; Latin: Musea Vaticana) are the public museums of Vatican City. They display works from the immense collection amassed by the Catholic Church and the papacy throughout the centuries, including several of the most wellknown Roman sculptures and most important masterpieces of Renaissance art in the world. The museums contain roughly 70,000 works, of which 20,000 are on display.

Pope Julius II founded the museums in the early 16th century. The Sistine Chapel, with its ceiling and altar wall decorated by Michelangelo, and the Stanze di Raffaello (decorated by Raphael) are on the visitor route through the Vatican Museums. Sistine Chapel (ceiling), however, is strictly forbidden of photography and thus is missing in the video.

In 2022, the Vatican Museums were visited by 5,080,866 persons. They ranked second in the List of mostvisited art museums in the world after the Louvre.

There are 24 galleries, or rooms, in total, with the Sistine Chapel, notably, being the last room visited within the Museum.

The fresco "The School of Athens" by Raphael, shown on the cover, is in the video. The masterpiece is regarded as the perfect embodiment of the classical spirit of the Renaissance.