Museum of the Cathedral Treasure

The Museum of the Cathedral Treasure keeps important objects coming from the Cathedral of St. Eusebius, which has been enriched during the Centuries in furnishings, reliquaries and manufactures of inestimable value.

The exhibition opens with the original filling of the Ottonian Cross that can be traced back to bishop Leone (998-1026), prominent figure of the imperial political life, a man of cultural prestige in close relations with the emperors of the the Holy Roman Empire.

Among the artworks in exhibition, an important collection of reliquaries.

They are exceptional repositories made of gold, silver, ivory...

... precious stones, enamels and other materials, attributable to a chronological period between the 7th Century and the modern age.

The collection includes reliquaries of many different shapes, such as this zoomorphic reliquary, or this statuette from the 15th Century, or this Monstrance reliquary from the 17th Century.

Bronze engraved bowls, such as this one or the one from the from the 12th Century.

The collection is the subject of studies and research that also make use of the interaction between the Museum, the Capitulary Library and the Capitulary Archive.

Capitulary Library and Archives reflect the importance the diocese of Vercelli has represented both in the Middle Ages and in the modern age.

This is testified by a bibliographic and archival patrimony formed by around 260 manuscripts (probably dated from the 4th to the 15th Century), parchments, archival documents and early printed books.