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The Profane Museum

MrRING

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As far as I can tell the Gregorian Profane Museum at the Vatican is the one to which you refer.

Gregorian Profane Museum: Its rooms hold Greek and Roman sculptures from the first to third centuries A.D.
https://www.rome.net/vatican-museums


Profane Museum

By Motu proprio of 1761, Clement XIII authorised the birth of the Profane Museum, the first museum collection of profane antiquities in the Vatican, for the exhibition of sumptuary arts, the instrumentum domesticum (cameos, ivories, rock crystals and small bronzes) and, until the early nineteenth century, the papal numismatic collections. ...
FULL DESCRIPTION: http://www.museivaticani.va/content...ezioni/musei/museo-profano/museo-profano.html
 
lt probably sounds saucier than it actually is, “profane” in this context meaning:

“not relating to that which is sacred or religious; secular.

"a talk that tackled topics both sacred and profane" “

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