Museo di Arte Sacra

The Museum of Sacred Art is located in Mirabella Eclano, inside the former churches of the Confraternity of the Most Holy Rosary and the Archconfraternity of San Prisco (Saint Priscus).

Inaugurated on 30 April 2009, the complex is located in the historic centre of the town, on the left side of the Church of Santa Maria Maggiore (Saint Mary Major). Inside it are collected important works, artefacts and documentary material of various chronology and valuable workmanship, most of which come from the Mother Church and other places of worship located in the territory: sacred vestments, paintings, ancient books, documents of the parish historical archive, choral and liturgical books, scrolls, objects of devotion, etc.

The museum area also includes some rooms used, in the past, as meeting places for the two lay associations, in an area of great historical and artistic interest. In some of these rooms, in fact, during the renovation of the buildings, traces of modern masonry dating from around the 15th-17th centuries were discovered, together with circular grain pits, a remote paving structure and a trapezoidal furnace, perhaps used for casting a bell, visible through a superstructure in a transparent glass walk-over floor. All these finds, taken together, constitute a unique body of historical and artistic assets of considerable importance for the community of Mirabella Eclano and at the same time represent the most direct evidence of the relationship between them and the religious culture of the place.

A rich cultural heritage of inestimable value, the Museum of Sacred Art is an expression of the profound religious devotion nurtured by the local community throughout the ages.