“I'm a lucky man, who has lived surrounded by beauty”.  Professor Antonio Paolucci, born in 1939 in Rimini to a family of antiquarians, but Roman by choice, art historian, was nominated by Pope Ratzinger in 2007 as director of the Vatican Museums. In the past, he was the the Director of the Uffizi, Superintendent, first in Venice, then Verona, Mantova and finally at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure of Florence, then moving on to the Special Superintendence of the Florentine Polo Museale and the regional directorship of Cultural Heritage and Landmarks for Tuscany, minister of Cultural Heritage under Lamberto Dini, as well as Special Commissioner of the Government for the restoration of the rBasilica di San Francesco in Assisi after the earthquake in 1997. Since his arrival at the Vatican Museums, he has brought about revolutionary changes with evening openings, online reservations and virtual tours which he himself conducts, explaining with the utmost contagious appreciation to the visitor, who becomes his pupil, and in the most close-up detail, the paintings of the Sistine Chapel or the "Stanze" of Raphael and the other masterpieces that are a part of the incredible collection of the Vatican State.  “A positive example that generates profits” states Mario Resca, Director of the Management and Development Project for Italian Museums. However, “the great immeasurable profit of all the world's museums – underlines Paolucci – consists in the civility gained by the people that visit them. An civilized citizen, better educated, more aware, is also a better worker, a more efficient employee, a more responsible manager. Noboday calculates this but the true profit is this, the rest is just small change from the sales of a few postcards and some cups of coffee”.