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Museo de Arte Sacra da Colexiata de Santa María do Campo

Small museum beside the Santa María do Campo collegiate church, with liturgical silverwork from the 16th to the 20th century. Free admission.

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About the museum

The museum opened in 1990 in a building specially constructed beside the Santa María do Campo collegiate church, in the Old Town of A Coruña. It was designed by the architect Manuel Gallego Jorreto, who conceived the central staircase as a jewel box holding the pieces.

Its holdings are silverwork used in the liturgy of the collegiate church over the centuries: chalices, reliquaries, sacras, censers, croziers (báculos) and other pieces from different schools, periods and countries. Among the most notable are a Eucharistic casket and a monstrance of late 17th-century German Baroque, a gift from Queen Mariana of Neuburg, wife of Charles II, who spent a night in A Coruña in 1690 on her way to her wedding.

The exhibition is arranged chronologically and by school across four levels: pieces from the 16th and 17th centuries and some from the mid-18th century; silverwork from A Coruña and Córdoba from the late 18th and early 19th centuries; croziers and metalwork from the 19th century; and works from the schools of Salamanca and Santiago de Compostela, including pieces by Jacobo Pecul.

Highlights

Eucharistic casket and monstrance of late 17th-century German Baroque
Silverwork donated by Queen Mariana of Neuburg
Chalices, reliquaries, sacras, censers and croziers from the 16th to the 20th century
Silverwork from A Coruña, Córdoba, Salamanca and Santiago de Compostela
Building by Manuel Gallego Jorreto, with a staircase designed like a jewel box

Permanent exhibition

Platería litúrgica de la colegiata – Collection of religious silverwork from the 16th to the 20th century, arranged chronologically and by school across four levels.