Museo di Arte Sacra

Rich cultural heritage of inestimable value, the Museum of Sacred Art of Mirabella Eclano houses important works, artifacts and documentary material of various chronology and exquisite workmanship, an expression of profound religious devotion

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The Museum of Sacred Art is located in Mirabella Eclano, inside the former Churches of the Confraternity of the SS. Rosario and the Archconfraternity of San Prisco. Inaugurated on 30 April 2009, the complex is located in the historic center of the Irpinia town, on the left side of the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore. Inside it are collected important works, artifacts and documentary material of various chronology and valuable workmanship, most of which coming from the Mother Church and other p read more

The Museum of Sacred Art is located in Mirabella Eclano, inside the former Churches of the Confraternity of the SS. Rosario and the Archconfraternity of San Prisco. Inaugurated on 30 April 2009, the complex is located in the historic center of the Irpinia town, on the left side of the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore. Inside it are collected important works, artifacts and documentary material of various chronology and valuable workmanship, most of which coming from the Mother Church and other places of worship located in the area: sacred vestments, paintings, ancient books, documents of the parish historical archive, choral and liturgical books, parchments, objects of devotion, etc. The museum area also includes some rooms used, in the past, as meeting places for the two lay associations, in an area of ​​great historical and artistic interest. Precisely in some of these environments, in fact, during the renovation works of the buildings, traces of walls from the modern era came to light, dating back to around the 15th-17th century, together with circular grain pits, a remote paved structure and a furnace, trapezoidal in shape, perhaps used for the casting of a bell, visible through a walkable floor superstructure of transparent crystal. All these finds, taken together, constitute a single corpus of historical-artistic heritage of considerable importance for the community of Mirabella Eclano and, at the same time, represent the most direct testimony of the relationship that binds them to the religious culture of the place. Rich cultural heritage of inestimable value, the Museum of Sacred Art is an expression of the profound religious devotion nourished, over the course of the various eras, by the local community. read less