Museo diocesano di Sant'Agata de' Goti
Diocesan museum with an art section in the church of the Carmine and a section devoted to the places of Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori in the Episcopal palace.
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About the museum
The idea of a diocesan museum in Sant’Agata de’ Goti dates back to the 1970s, but the first adaptation works were interrupted by the Irpinia earthquake of 1980. In 1993 Bishop Mario Paciello relaunched the project, and the museum was inaugurated on 27 September 1996. It holds sacred works of art from the diocese of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti.
The collections are divided into two sections. The museum section is housed in the church of the Madonna del Carmine and holds archaeological and artistic finds, among them an early Christian slab of the 5th–6th century, the tomb slab of Abbot Antonio di Tramonto (1361) and paintings such as a late Gothic Pietà attributed to Silvestro Buono and an Annunciation by Giaquinto.
The section on the Alphonsian places occupies a wing of the Episcopal palace in Piazza Umberto I and recalls the years in which Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori was bishop of the city. It includes the courtyard with a lapidarium and the rooms he lived in, with a detached fresco of 1614, the simple episcopal chair used for audiences, and texts from the beatification and canonisation proceedings.
Highlights
- Early Christian slab of the 5th–6th century
- Late Gothic Pietà attributed to Silvestro Buono
- Annunciation by Giaquinto
- Rooms inhabited by Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
- Lapidarium in the courtyard of the Episcopal palace
Permanent exhibitions
- Sezione museale – Archaeological finds and sacred works of art displayed in the church of the Madonna del Carmine.
- Luoghi alfonsiani – Rooms of the Episcopal palace inhabited by Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, with objects, documents and a detached fresco.
- Founded
- 1996
- Operated by
- Diocesi di Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant'Agata de' Goti
- Visitors per year
- approx. 600
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