Museo del Tesoro della Basilica

Museum Assisi, Italy

The Treasury Museum of the basilica of San Francesco is a collection of sacred art exhibited in two rooms of the North Palace of the Sacred Convent of Assisi, with access from the first floor of the Renaissance Cloister of Sixtus IV, close to the apse of the famous basilica which holds the remains of the Poverello. The museum houses about a hundred paintings, sculptures, goldsmiths, tapestries and illuminated manuscripts, which the Friars Minor of Assisi received as gifts from popes and illustrious patrons.