Museo San Giuseppe da Copertino

Museum in the convent of the Osimo sanctuary, with the rooms where Saint Joseph of Copertino lived from 1657 to 1663 and his belongings.

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About the museum

The museum is dedicated to Saint Joseph of Copertino (Giuseppe Maria Desa, Copertino 1603 – Osimo 1663) and is housed in the convent of the Conventual Friars Minor, in the area of the sanctuary that bears his name. The route includes the rooms in which the saint lived from 1657 until his death.

The sanctuary stands on a 13th-century church dedicated to Saint Francis, which received a Baroque interior in the 18th century after the saint's canonisation; the façade retains its Romanesque-Gothic appearance. The oratory where Mass was celebrated and the three small rooms inhabited by the saint have been kept in their original state.

The museum holds the saint's vestments and religious garments, liturgical furnishings, sacred images painted in miniature on parchment and documentary material from the 16th century. In the private chapel stands a wooden altar with a 17th-century canvas, The Birth of Mary, by an unknown artist of the school of Claudio Ridolfi.

Highlights

Rooms where Saint Joseph of Copertino lived (1657–1663)
Vestments and religious garments of the saint
Sacred images painted in miniature on parchment
Private chapel with wooden altar and 17th-century canvas

Permanent exhibition

Museo e stanze di san Giuseppe da Copertino – Rooms inhabited by the saint from 1657 to 1663, with vestments, liturgical furnishings, miniature paintings and 16th-century documents.

Operated by: Frati Minori Conventuali di Osimo