Vatican Museum.

A few days ago we went to the Vatican Museum that is in its own country in the middle of Rome, Italy. It was full of old and very valuable artworks that the Catholic Church held onto so that we can see it all so well today.

Our tour guide was called Angelo and he was half Italian and half American so he was really good at English and was full of facts and info so we learnt heaps off of him.

The museum was huge. My three favourite rooms were;  
1. The hall with all the tapestries with the maps of Italy and all of its regions from hundreds of years ago.   They were enormous and they had so much detail.
 

 

2. A round room that only had one massive red marble (porphhyry) tub for the Emperor to bathe in after he feasted until he vomited. It is the biggest full slab of red marble in the world and it is very expensive. Everything was very expensive.  

3.  The Sistine Chapel. Every wall and the whole ceiling are full of divine paintings. The ceiling and the main wall was painted by Michelangelo. He didn’t want to paint the ceiling but the Pope made him do it. When he painted ‘The Last Judgement’ on the main wall he painted all the people nude to meet God.  Michelangelo hated the Curator of the Museum so he painted him on the wall with donkey ears and a snake biting his wee wee. After Michelangelo died the Curator painted covers on them. There were lots of interesting and funny parts in the painting.

I would love to see the Vatican Museum again.
It was immensely awesome.

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