Sistine Chapel Cleaning Project
Cleaning due to visitor particles causing white haze.
Sistine Chapel remains open with scaffolding partially blocking view.
Chapel named after Pope Sixtus IV, built in 15th century.
Michelangelo painted Creation of Adam (1508-1512) and The Last Judgment.
6 million annual visitors to Vatican Museums.
Sistine Chapel hosts May conclave that elected Pope Leo XIV.
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