The Vatican is the Popes city. It only has 1000 people but it has it's own laws, military, post office, and news paper. You can even get a Vatican passport. All run by the Pope. The Vatican is right in the middle of Rome.
Anyway the museum. The first thing we saw was the sculpters. Both Greek and Roman. There was a lot of Egyptian stone called pophery. There was only one quarry that mined it so they ran out. We saw a a really huge tub made out of one big piece.
Another part I liked was a hall full of old maps. The building of the museum is cool as well. Some other rooms are the Raphael rooms. The entire rooms were painted.
I bet the most famous thing we saw that day was the Sistine Chapel. It has the paintings The Last Judgement on the front wall, and Creation in the middle of the ceiling. They were done by Micheal Angelo. It's kind of sad seeing he didn't really want to paint them at all. Even so it was pretty amazing.
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