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

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

Gallery

• Museo Pio Cristiano
• The Good Shepherd (c. 300)

See also

• Vatican Gallery of Maps

References

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

External links

• Vatican Museum Tickets
• The Vatican: spirit and art of Christian Rome, a book from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on the museum (pp. 176–189)

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