Tipologia:
Museum
The Diocesan Museum of Matera was inaugurated in 2011 and is located in the premises of the former seminary built in 1906 by Archbishop Raffaele Rossi. It houses numerous works of medieval sacred art dating from the 11th to the 20th centuries, mainly consisting of wood and polychrome stone statues of the 16th and 17th centuries. It also showcases a large number of silver sacred objects from the 15th and 18th centuries, belonging to the treasure of the Cathedral and the church of Santa Chiara, including the pectoral Byzantine cross dating from the 11th century, the reliquaries of St. Eustace, of St. John of Matera, of St. Blaise and the bust of St. Agapitus. Especially valuable is one of the twenty remaining copies in Italy of the famous manuscript of the Bible of Federico di Montefeltro, whose original work is kept in the Vatican Library.
Via Riscatto 12 75100 Matera
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