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Shocking Images of Packed Galleries at the Vatican Museums Suggest the Institution Isn t Following Its Own Health Regulations

Tour guides and visitors said they were trapped in the Raphael Rooms on Saturday as crowds swelled. February 17, 2021 A visitor observes the Raphael Rooms at the Vatican Museums February 4, 2021. Photo by Franco Origlia/Getty Images. The Vatican Museums are under fire for allegedly not enforcing social-distancing rules since reopening to the public this month. Getty photographers documented a near-empty museum early in February, with just a handful of visitors in each galley. Two weeks later, it appeared to be a very different story, with overcrowding and disregard for health protocols, according to the Italian newspaper  La Republica and English-language reports from the Local and the

Visitor crush at Vatican museums

Visitors queuing for the Vatican Museums, which reopened to the public on 1 February after three months’ closure © IPA MilestoneMedia/PA Images The Vatican Museums has been criticised for its lax Covid-19 security procedures by visitors trapped in overcrowded galleries last Saturday. Museumgoers took to social media to complain about the institution’s failure to implement effective social-distancing measures in some of its most popular spaces last weekend, in particular those decorated with frescoes by Raphael and his workshop. Vincenzo Spina, a tour guide who led a group through the museum on Saturday afternoon, said they were stuck in the Hall of Constantine, the first of a sequence of four Raphael rooms, “surrounded by people” and unable to move for 15 minutes when a museum guard “who appeared utterly confused” temporarily stopped access to the following room. It was “like the metro in rush hour,” Spina wrote on Facebook.

Covid-19: Vatican Museums crowds spark criticism

Covid-19: Vatican Museums crowds spark criticism 16 Feb, 2021 Tour guides and visitors complain of over-crowding at the Vatican Museums. The Vatican Museums, which reopened on 1 February after three months of closure due to covid-19 restrictions, face criticism due to alleged over-crowded conditions on Saturday 13 February. The complaints, reported by Italian newspaper La Repubblica, come from tour guides and visitors to the Vatican Museums, who documented their hellish experience with photographs and reviews condemning the alleged disorganisation that led to the build-up of crowds. The situation in the morning of 13 February was manageable, wrote guide Vincenzo Spina on social media, however by the afternoon there were scenes of chaos and carnage in several areas of the museums, particularly in the Raphael Rooms.

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