The Diocesan Museum of San Riccardo in Andria

Dario Melissano 1 March 2025

The San Riccardo Diocesan Museum is located in a building with two buildings: the first, more recently built, dates back to 1952 and was built with the aim of providing employment to unemployed laborers; the second, older building is part of Palazzo Margiotta. This location in the historic center of Andria, near the Cathedral, the Bishop's Palace and other historic churches, helps create an environment rich in historical, artistic and religious value.

The Diocesan Museum covers a total area of 1,400 m² divided into four levels: basement, ground floor, first and second floor. The distinctive element of the building is the central atrium, surrounded by galleries and views of the various floors.

The ground floor is dedicated to welcoming visitors and houses the ticket office, a bookshop and a conference room. On the first floor, the exhibition offers an excursus on the history of the Diocese, from its origins to the early nineteenth century, through a selection of sacred works of art. The exhibitions on the second floor focus on the spiritual and organizational renewal of the Diocese between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, showing the work of enlightened bishops who reawakened faith, in particular through the cult of San Riccardo, patron saint of Andria.

A fundamental part of the museum's collections is dedicated to Saint Richard, whose urn containing his relics was recomposed in the first half of the twentieth century. This urn, made of gilded wood, houses a silver cast of the saint's head, along with precious vestments and symbols of his episcopal role. The museum also exhibits reliquaries, liturgical objects and sacred furnishings in precious metals, as well as embroidered vestments, all elements that testify to the link between faith and beauty.

Among the most important works, certainly the Maria by Cesare Fracanzano, and a Polyptych by Vivarini.

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