Museum
In the museum collection are collected the most significant liturgical objects, from the Romanic to the nineteenth century, for the art and history of the valley ...
Baptismal font
The baptismal font dates back to 1156 and is a soapstone monolith carved with half relief of the figures representing...
Church
The first documents that attest to the existence of the Church date back to 973, although it is likely that it was already present in the fifth century ...
Welcome to the Museum of the Treasure of Chiavenna
ABOUT US
Since 1927, the bishop of Como had put forth the proposal to establish a museum for the objects of the collegiate church of Chiavenna and the other churches in the valley.
Thirty years later the archpriest Don Pietro Bormetti set it up in a small room on the ground floor of the rectory, which remained open to the public by request until 1981 when, following a repeated burglary attempt, the museum was closed.
It was not until 1998 with the archpriest Don Ambrogio Balatti, that the Treasury was set up again from scratch in three rooms equipped with the most advanced security systems and new positioning of objects, with the expert advice of the Centre for Historical Valchiavenna’s Studies.
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