Museo Chiaramonti
Museo Chiaramonti—*Museo Chiaramonti*—is one of the Vatican Museums’ most important branches, created to present a major body of classical sculpture in a dedicated setting. It traces its establishment to 1807, a date that places it firmly in the early 19th century, when papal collecting was being reorganized into museum-like galleries. The museum takes its name from Luigi Chiaramonti, who later became Pope Pius VII (elected in 1800), tying the building of the collections to a specific pontificate rather than a vague “antiquities tradition.” Today, the museum’s identity remains closely linked to that founding idea: preserving antiquities as curated public heritage within the wider network of the Vatican Museums. …
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