Diocesan Museum La Maddalena

The exhibition is located in the parish church of Santa Maria Maddalena. The main theme of the exhibition is the “Treasure of Santa Maria Maddalena,” ex-votos offered by devotees to the Patron Saint. The treasure includes jewelry of Gallurese production from the 16th-18th centuries. Visitors can admire statues, paintings, tapestries, ancient books, tabernacles, sacred vestments, and altar furnishings, such as monstrances, pyxes, chalices, patens, censers, and reliquaries. Equally important are the liturgical silver items bearing the coat of arms of Baron Giorgio Andreas De Geneys, appointed commander of the Sardinian navy in 1799 by Viceroy Carlo Felice. An inventory of the “treasure” and ancient documentation of the offerings for the construction of the church are also present. Attached to the museum is a specialized library of religious culture with essays and specific bibliography on the Saint, New Testament, and apocryphal literature.