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The Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani), inside the Vatican City, are among the most visited museums of the world, displaying works from the collection built up by the Roman Catholic Church throughout the centuries: The Entombment of Christ (Caravaggio) in the Pinacoteca Vaticana, The School of Athens (Raphael) in the Stanza della segnatura, The Creation of Adam (Michelangelo) inside the Cappella Sistina, the frescoes and other works in the Borgia Apartment, etc.

The Natural History Museum is home to some 70 million specimens of life and earth science within five main collections (Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology), among them specimens collected by Darwin. The icon of the museum is the large Diplodocus cast dominating the vaulted central hall.

The Hermitage museum, a large complex of six historic buildings including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors, has the largest collection of paintings in the world.