Flooding at the Vatican Museums: water on the statues of the Profane Gregorian, Finestre sull’Arte,
A violent thunderstorm that hit Rome in the past week has caused water infiltration in the Vatican Museums, causing flooding in the Gregorian Profane section, one of the exhibition spaces that holds a significant part of the ancient sculpture collections. The episode, as reported by the newspaper Il Messaggero, is documented by a video initially circulated among insiders and later circulated outside as well, in which continuous streams of water are observed coming down from the ceiling and pouring directly onto the works.