The Ecclesiastical Museum of the Co-Cathedral of San Sabino

Type:

Luoghi della cultura; Ente/Istituzione

Category:

Archaeology museums

The Ecclesiastical History of the Museum of the Co-Cathedral of San Sabino was linked to its historic building and to the multi-year research on Christians, the late antique and medieval archaeological and historical sites. The Fracchiolla-Minerva Palace, a nineteenth-century building of great value, was donated by the Minerva Bishop to the Parish-Cathedral of San Sabino and it is now a museum. The Co-Cathedral of San Sabino Institution has established the Ecclesiastical Co-Cathedral Museum, ranked among the non-state museums according to the DM 15.09.1965. This classification was made after the Treasury of the Cathedral was donated to the Chapter of the Cathedral of San Sabino in 1960. In 2005, after that the Palace was designed as the new seat of the museum, the Bishop of Andria has issued the decree that established the Ecclesiastical Museum of the Cathedral of San Sabino in Canosa of Puglia. During these years, the agreements between the establishment of the museum, the Superintendence of Archaeological Heritage of Puglia, the University of Bari and Foggia, have led to the conception of the "Museum of Bishops," as a museum dedicated to historical and archaeological reconstruction of the history of the diocese of Canosa.