Diocesan Museum

The diocesan museum was established in 1952 by archbishop Giovanni Rizzo. In the space of two rooms, properly created by restoring the premises of the sacristy of the cathedral, artistic proofs, sacred and liturgical furnishings were collected along with other documentary material of different ages, including the very famous and precious holy text of the Codex Purpureus. In 1977 the museum underwent an important structural intervention, thanks to Archbishop Antonio Cantisani. In 1985-1986 Archbishop Serafino Sprovieri started the restoring of a wing of the Archbishop which had to become a museum.

After years of work, on December 9th 2000, the new seat of the museum was opened by Archbishop Andrea Cassone. The present collocation, in the rooms behind the cathedral is made up of ten rooms, one of which is appropriately reserved to the Codex Purpureus Rossanensis.

Archbishop Santo Marcianò, together with the Monuments and Fine arts/ Ethnoanthropologic goods Office of Calabria has urged and started a reorganization of the exhibition rooms, according to scientific museum and modern criteria aiming at exploiting adequately the structural rooms and at promoting the contents

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Time:	APERTURA INVERNALE (WINTER OPENING) 16/09 - 30/06 (from september 16 to june 30) 09.30/12.30 - 16.00/19.00 Festivi (Sundays and Public Holidays) 10.00/12.00 - 16.30/18.30 LUNEDI' CHIUSO ( CLOSED ON MONDAYS) APERTURA ESTIVA (SUMMER OPENING) (01/07 al 15/09) (From july 1 to september 15) 09:30-13:00 16:30-20:00 APERTO TUTTI I GIORNI (OPEN DAILY)
Address:	Museo Diocesano di Arte Sacra Rossano (Diocesan Museum Of Sacred Art Rossano) Direttore: Don Pino Straface mail: gstraface@libero.it Gestione: Cooperativa Neilos Via Largo Duomo, 5 87067 - Rossano
Telephone [I° line]:	+39.0983.525263
Telephone [II° line]:	+39.340.4759406
Fax:	+39.0983.525263
Email:	neilos@tiscalinet.it

Sacred works in the museum:

Codex Purpureus Rossanensis

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Furnishings

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Manuscripts

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Paintings

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Sculptures

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Silverware

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Vestments

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