The statue of Sophocles in the Lateran Museum as pictured in 1905
The Lateran Museum (Museo Lateranense) was a museum founded by the Popes and housed in the Lateran Palace, adjacent to the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome, Italy. It ceased to exist in 1970.
Pope Gregory XVI (1831–1846) established the Museo Profano Lateranense (or Museo Gregoriano Profano) in 1844. Its collections initially consisted of statues, bas-relief sculptures and mosaics of the Roman era. The museum was enlarged in 1854 under Pius IX (1846–1878) with the addition of the Museo Pio Cristiano. This collection was assembled by the archaeologists Father Giuseppe Marchi and Giovanni Battista de Rossi. Marchi collected the sculptured monuments of the early Christian period, while de Rossi the ancient Christian inscriptions. A third department of the museum consisted of copies of some of the more important catacomb frescoes. Father Marchi was appointed the director of the new institution. In 1910, under the pontificate of Pius X (1903–1914), the Hebrew Lapidary (Lapidario Ebraico) was established. This section contained 137 inscriptions from ancient Hebrew cemeteries in Rome mostly from via Portuense. The Museo Missionario Etnografico was founded by Pius XI with the documents and relics exhibited in Rome at the Missionary Exposition in 1925, and included historical documents of Missions and relics from the people where these missions took place. The three collections were transferred, under the pontificate of Pope John XXIII (1958–1963), from the Lateran Palace to the Vatican. They were reopened to the public in 1970. Their collections are still called "ex Lateranense" to indicate their former place of display.
The Lateran Palace is now occupied by the Museo Storico Vaticano which illustrates the history of the Papal States. It was moved to the palace in 1987 and inaugurated in 1991.
The LateranMuseum (Museo Lateranense) was a museum founded by the Popes and housed in the Lateran Palace, adjacent to the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran...
important collections of the LateranMuseum, now dispersed among other parts of the Vatican Museums. Following the Lateran Treaty of 1929, the palace and...
The most famous Lateran buildings are the Lateran Palace, once called the Palace of the Popes, and the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, the cathedral...
Evangelist in Lateran, Mother and Head of All Churches in Rome and in the World", and commonly known as the Lateran Basilica or Saint John Lateran) is the Catholic...
founded the Museum Christianum, and some of the Vatican collections formed the LateranMuseum, which Pius IX founded by decree in 1854. The museums celebrated...
antiquity, one can single out the so-called "Dogma sarcophagus" of the LateranMuseum where three figures (commonly taken to represent the theological trinity)...
The Lateran Treaty (Italian: Patti Lateranensi; Latin: Pacta Lateranensia) was one component of the Lateran Pacts of 1929, agreements between the Kingdom...
The Lateran Obelisk or Tekhen Waty in ancient Egyptian is the largest standing ancient Egyptian obelisk in the world, and it is also the tallest obelisk...
LateranMuseum, Rome, Italy. Rome - Early Christian sarcophagus, LateranMuseum, story of Isaac; Moses on Mount Sinai; healing blind; Peter denies Lord;...
Ephesus Archaeological Museum, Efes, Turkey. Ancient Roman statue of god Attis found at Ostia (Rome), now in the LateranMuseum. Bronze figurine of Attis...
Myron's Samian Athena by C.K. Jenkins in 1926. A marble figure in the LateranMuseum, which is now restored as a dancing satyr, is almost certainly a copy...
within Rome, Italy. It became independent from Italy in 1929 with the Lateran Treaty, and it is a distinct territory under "full ownership, exclusive...
bust of Sophocles was found near the amphitheatre. It is now in the LateranMuseum, Rome. The commune of Terracina includes a considerable extent of territory...
Rome, now in the LateranMuseum. Quintus Laronius Q. l. Salvius Cascelianus, named on a marble tablet from Rome, now in the public museum at Panormus. Laronia...
main floor of the Apostolic Palace of the Lateran and opened in March 1991. The Vatican Historical Museum has a unique collection of portraits of the...
an altarpiece in the Venetian academy, is 1440; the latest, in the Lateranmuseum, 1464, but he appears to have been alive in 1470. He worked in company...
of Saint John Lateran, is called Sacrosancta Lateranensis ecclesia omnium urbis et orbis ecclesiarum mater et caput ("Most Holy Lateran Church, Mother...
what would later be known as the Lateran Obelisk (which was originally at Karnak, and was later brought to the Lateran Palace in Rome). The unfinished...
the spirit of Damasus. Some of his inscriptions are preserved in the LateranMuseum. These inscriptions as a rule are public and official in character....
apartment building at Via Tasso 145, Rome, close to the basilica of St. John Lateran. It records the period of German occupation of Rome (September 1943 - June...
"Vatican", the Vatican City State was distinctively established with the Lateran Treaty of 1929, between the Holy See and Italy, to ensure the temporal...
The Museum of Roman Civilization (Italian: Museo della Civiltà Romana) is a museum in Rome (Esposizione Universale Roma district), devoted to aspects of...
territory in the context of the Italian Risorgimento. It ended with the Lateran Pacts between King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and Pope Pius XI in 1929...
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