Museum of Sacred Art in Santos, Religious art museum in Santos, Brazil.

The Museum of Sacred Art in Santos houses over 600 religious works including sculptures, paintings, liturgical objects, and vestments created across several centuries. These pieces occupy a historic monastery complex that also includes a working chapel and church still used for services today.

The Benedictine monastery was licensed by the Santos council in 1649 and confirmed in 1650, with construction beginning on 1 January 1650 next to the Church of Nossa Senhora do Desterro, built in 1631. The monastery was funded by a donation from Bartholomeu Fernandes Mourão and Isabel Barbosa. The Museum of Sacred Art was founded in 1981 and occupies the former monastery complex.

The museum occupies the rooms of the former Mosteiro de São Bento, and its ten thematic spaces follow the old uses of the monastery. Highlights include a Santa Catarina de Alexandria image from 1540, a Nossa Senhora da Conceição by João Gonçalo, and paintings by Benedito Calixto. The Frei Gaspar library holds over four thousand titles, among them the 1793 Memórias para a História da Capitania de São Vicente.

The museum occupies the former Mosteiro de São Bento, entered through the complex attached to the Igreja de Nossa Senhora do Desterro, whose facade faces east. The church has a single nave with a three-arch galilee at the front and the sacristy at the rear; the tower rests on the third arch, above the right cloister corridor. The cloister, described in 1656 as interrupted by a large boulder, still serves as the distributing centre between the former monastic rooms, now the ten thematic sections.

The monastery cloister was not square: a 1656 description records that it was interrupted by a large boulder, which the builders incorporated into the layout. The refectory and the slaves' quarters stood at the rear of the chapel.