Museo del santuario arcivescovile della Beata Vergine dei Miracoli di Corbetta
Museum of the Marian sanctuary in Corbetta, with votive offerings, the Camere di San Carlo, vestments of Montini and a painting by Procaccini.
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About the museum
The museum is linked to the sanctuary of the Beata Vergine dei Miracoli in Corbetta, a destination for pilgrimages after the apparition of the Virgin on 17 April 1555. Already in the 19th century the rector of the sanctuary catalogued and restored the historic objects; from the 1930s the collection found a place in the upper rooms of the cloister. The museum was inaugurated in 1938 by Cardinal Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster.
In 2010, on the occasion of the four hundredth anniversary of the canonisation of Saint Charles Borromeo, the spaces were renovated and reopened to the public with a route that retraces local religious history. The complex includes the sanctuary with its chapels, the Chiostro del Pozzo (Well Cloister), the Cappella delle Benedizioni (Chapel of Blessings) and the Camere di San Carlo (Saint Charles's Rooms).
The collections bring together votive offerings, paintings, altar frontals, relics and liturgical vestments. Among the best-known works is the Madonna del Rosario by Giulio Cesare Procaccini; in the Camere di San Carlo are kept the furnishings used by Charles Borromeo, including a canopied bed, while one room commemorates Archbishop Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Paul VI, with the vestments he wore in 1955 for the coronation of the Madonna di Corbetta.
Highlights
- Camere di San Carlo with Charles Borromeo's canopied bed
- Madonna del Rosario by Giulio Cesare Procaccini
- Chapel of Blessings with votive offerings and photographs of soldiers from the two world wars
- Vestments of Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Paul VI
- Sanctuary with the fresco of the Madonna di Corbetta
Permanent exhibitions
- Camere di San Carlo – Original furnishings used by Charles Borromeo during his visits to Corbetta, including a canopied bed, and a room dedicated to Montini.
- Cappella delle Benedizioni – Votive offerings, paintings, prayers of thanksgiving and photographs of servicemen from the two world wars.
- Founded
- 1938
- Operated by
- Gruppo Devoti della Madonna dei Miracoli di Corbetta
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Plan your visit
| Good to know | Bookings for a museum visit are made with the sanctuary office, tel. +39 02 977 9066. |
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