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Sacred Art Museum

Sacred Art Museum
Sacred Art Museum is located in Italy
Sacred Art Museum
Location within Italy
Location Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption, Alcamo, Italy
Coordinates 37°58′53″N 12°57′55″E / 37.9813°N 12.9654°E / 37.9813; 12.9654Coordinates: 37°58′53″N 12°57′55″E / 37.9813°N 12.9654°E / 37.9813; 12.9654
Type Art museum
Website www.chiesamadrealcamo.it

In 2010, thanks to the work of Monsignore Antonino Treppiedi (archpriest of that time) and at the request of the Bishop of Trapani, inside the Basilica of Our Lady of the Assumption in Alcamo, they realized the Sacred Art Museum of Basilica of Our Lady’s Assumption with the technical consultancy of Pietro Artale and Calogero Mauro Calamia (architects), and the museographic one of Professore Maurizio Vitella.

The museum hosts a lot of paintings, sculptures and jewels coming from Alcamo churches, dating back to the period separating the 13th and 19th centuries, for a total of 150 works that are exhibited in an area of about 400 square metres, derived from the ex oratory of the Holy Sacrament adjoining the church. These works had been sheltered there after the 1968 Belice earthquake (as many churches became unfit for use) by monsignore Vincenzo Regina, archpriest from 1944 to 1991.

These are some of the works inside the museum:

Besides these works there are also so many objects of sacred art, among which you can see sculptures, architectural fragments, paraments, holy scriptures, golden and silver jewels.


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