Museo della Camera storica

About the museum

The museum was created by the Arciconfraternita di San Giovanni Decollato, founded in 1488 by Florentine devotees, to preserve evidence of its own activity. The confraternity assisted people condemned to death, among them Beatrice Cenci, whose kneeler is on display but is currently under restoration.

The collection includes bones of executed people set into the floor, ropes used for hangings, baskets for severed heads, registers with the names of the condemned, a stretcher for carrying the bodies to burial, and the garment worn by prisoners on the day of execution. Every year, on 24 June, the bones are blessed in a torchlit procession by members of the confraternity.

The museum occupies the first floor of the confraternity’s building, next to the church of San Giovanni Decollato, in the Rione Ripa.

Highlights

• Kneeler of Beatrice Cenci (currently under restoration)
• Registers of people condemned to death
• Bones of executed people in the floor
• Stretcher and garment used on the day of execution

Permanent exhibition

• Raccolta storica della confraternita – Objects and documents relating to the assistance given to people condemned to death, housed on the first floor of the confraternity’s palazzo.

Operated by

Arciconfraternita di San Giovanni Decollato

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