Pio Cristiano Museum

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

Pio Cristiano Museum
The Good Shepherd, c. 300 at the Pio Cristiano Museum, Rome

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

Sources

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


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