This is especially important in summer when many tourists come along in lighter clothing. Route it out: The Vatican Museums are huge and it’s uncomfortably easy to get lost or overwhelmed.

By Elisabetta Povoledo The pope will donate the 2,500-year-old pieces held by the Vatican Museums to the archbishop of Athens, a gesture that increases pressure on the British Museum to act over ...

There are also safety concerns over the frequent overcrowding of the Vatican Museums, one of the world’s top tourist destinations, which drew over 5 million visitors in 2022 and nearly 7 million ...

Forty-nine employees of the Vatican Museums have ... generating initiatives at the museum, including overcrowding and reduced security guards to keep tourists at bay. Neither the Vatican spokesman ...

The entrance to the Chiaramonti gallery in the Vatican Museums is seen in this 2020 file ... Vatican authorities about groups of pilgrims and tourists who line up early in the morning, at times ...

as well as the Vatican Museums, all of which tourists can visit. It is a city-state with its own police force called the Vatican Gendarmerie, which handed the suspect over to Italian police for ...

The entrance to the Chiaramonti gallery in the Vatican Museums is seen in this 2020 file photo. The Vatican said a tourist toppled and damaged two ancient Roman statues in the gallery Oct. 5 ...

An American tourist on Wednesday threw a tantrum and cracked two Roman busts in the Vatican Museums after officials denied him an audience with Pope Francis. The unidentified tourist, said to be ...

Related video above: Tourist crashes ... sculptures into pieces at the Vatican on Wednesday.The episode took place in the Museo Chiaramonti, part of the Vatican Museums, around lunchtime.