Museum of Ecclesiastical Assets of Rieti

The Museum of Ecclesiastical Assets of the Diocese of Rieti, with its exhibition path that unfolds through the environments of the Cathedral and the ancient Palace of the Popes, allows us to learn about, in addition to the strictly ecclesiastical fields, the heritage of history, art, and faith of the city collected over the centuries.

The liturgical objects, statues, paintings, and vestments document the ways and styles with which the catechetical will of the ecclesiastics, the skill of local artists, and popular religiosity have been expressed.

The exhibition path develops in environments that are suggestive in themselves, bearing prominent traces of architectural and artistic expertise of past centuries: from the Cathedral Treasury, which for over thirty years has found its home in the ancient Baptistery dominated by the pictorial and sculptural memories of the Renaissance, the visitor crosses the upper basilica, with its powerful Romanesque structure and interiors eloquently bearing traces of the Tridentine age, to then descend into the lower basilica and access the sacristies and the Lapidarium which preserve the medieval atmospheres intact.

From here, crossing the cloister that leads to the 13th-century Palace of the Popes, one accesses the art gallery, set up in the audience hall of the pontifical curia, a legitimate pride of the architect Andrea magister for its harmonious proportions and spaciousness.

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