Pio Cristiano Museum

The Pio Cristiano Museum is one of the Vatican Museums. It houses various works of Christian antiquity.[1]

The Good Shepherd, c. 300 at the Pio Cristiano Museum, Rome

The museum was founded by Pope Pius IX in 1854,[2] two years after the establishment of the Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archaeology.

Sources

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

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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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