The purpose of the Santa Maria di Betlem Museum Complex is to make accessible to the city and its visitors a part of Sassari’s history kept ” hidden” over the years. Embedded in the structure of the Franciscan convent, it is accessed from the library entrance on Artillery Street. The Museum Complex is divided into four areas: the library, the “Father Zirano” gallery with the Candlestick display, the cloister and the sacristy.<\/p>\n
The church currently cannot be visited due to ongoing renovations. In the gallery of the ” Blessed Zirano” there are several thematic sections: the photographic section containing images of the “Faradde” of the last century; the section with images and videos of the 2019 Descent of the Candlesticks; the display of the precious simulacrum of Our Lady of the Assumption and an ancient dress of the sleeping Virgin from the 1700s, embroidered in gold and silver ili; the display of the ancient Candlesticks of the Gremi dei Contadini, Ortolani, Sarti and some traditional Gremi clothing; and the scale reproduction of the 13 candlesticks that participate in the August 14 festival.<\/p>\n
After visiting the gallery, one enters the cloister with the 16th-century fountain called the ” Brigliadore” in the center and the sacristy in which valuable paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries are displayed. In the ancient library, located on the ground floor near the chapter house, a number of valuable texts, wall hangings, silverware and church furnishings from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries will be on display. Starting from the St. Mary’s complex, a route through the historic center is planned to visit the headquarters of the Blacksmiths’ Gremio (Discesa Santa Croce) and the Masons’ Gremio (Piazza Sant’Antonio).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":77901,"template":"","meta":{"COMUNE":[],"note":[],"indirizzo":[],"accessibilita_mezzi":[],"coordinates":[],"images":[],"adesioni":[],"footnotes":""},"monumento_tipologia":[676],"accessibilita":[706],"accessibilita_mezzi":[],"class_list":["post-95330","monumento","type-monumento","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","monumento_tipologia-museo-en","accessibilita-accesibilita-al-monumento"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/monumenti\/95330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/monumenti"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/monumento"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/monumenti\/95330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106901,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/monumenti\/95330\/revisions\/106901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"monumento_tipologia","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/monumento_tipologia?post=95330"},{"taxonomy":"accessibilita","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/accessibilita?post=95330"},{"taxonomy":"accessibilita_mezzi","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monumentiaperti.com\/it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/accessibilita_mezzi?post=95330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}