Musei Tecum
Museums of the sanctuary of San Michele in Monte Sant’Angelo: Lombard crypts, a lapidary museum and a devotional museum with the basilica’s treasury.
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About the museum
The Musei Tecum are part of the complex of the sanctuary of San Michele Arcangelo in Monte Sant’Angelo, on the Gargano. The basilica was built at the end of the 6th century and rebuilt in 871. The museum that documents its history opened in 1989 and is organised into two thematic collections, the devotional museum and the lapidary museum, to which the Lombard crypts are added.
The crypts, a gallery about 60 metres long beneath the floor of the Grotta and of the access corridor, were brought to light between 1949 and 1955 thanks to excavations promoted by the archdeacon Nicola Quitadamo. They preserve almost two hundred inscriptions incised between the 6th and 9th centuries, including inscriptions in runic script. In the Lombard gallery is the lapidary museum, with more than two hundred sculptural works from the sanctuary and from other monuments in the town, rearranged in 2015. Its main pieces include a statue of Saint Michael from the 14th–15th centuries and an ambo attributed to Acceptus, dated 1041.
The devotional museum, rearranged in 2008, holds the basilica’s possessions: vestments, silverware, ex voto offerings, icons, textiles, statues of the Archangel and a collection of gold votive offerings, as well as collections of coins, archaeology and ceramics. The treasury, part of the devotional museum, includes a rock-crystal cross reliquary, copes and chasubles donated by the kings of Savoy, and the chalice and paten donated by John Paul II.
Highlights
- Lombard crypts with almost two hundred inscriptions, including runic ones
- Lapidary museum with the ambo of Acceptus from 1041
- Sanctuary treasury with the rock-crystal cross reliquary
- Ex voto offerings, icons and collection of gold votive objects
- Gilded copper icon of Saint Michael (11th century)
Permanent exhibitions
- Cripte longobarde e museo lapidario – Underground gallery with almost two hundred inscriptions from the 6th to the 9th century and more than two hundred sculptural works from the sanctuary.
- Museo devozionale e tesoro – Vestments, silverware, ex voto offerings, icons and the sanctuary treasury, with gifts from sovereigns and popes.
- Founded
- 1989
- Operated by
- Basilica Santuario San Michele Arcangelo
- Visitors per year
- approx. 17,200 (2022)
Admission & discounts
Admission is charged; the prices are not stated on the pages consulted.
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Plan your visit
| Good to know | Visits to the museums are booked through the dedicated page on the sanctuary’s website or by telephone. |
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