Tridentine Diocesan Museum, Diocesan art museum in Trento, Italy.
The Tridentine Diocesan Museum is an art museum for religious works in the old city of Trento and is located in the former Palazzo Pretorio. The rooms hold paintings, sculptures, manuscripts, and objects from several centuries.
The museum was founded in 1903 to safeguard the diocese's art and first housed at the minor seminary, which became a military hospital in World War I. In 1963, for the 400th anniversary of the Council of Trent, it moved to Palazzo Pretorio, the former residence of the prince-bishops. After restoration in the 1990s, Pope John Paul II inaugurated it in 1995.
The museum keeps works from Trentino churches spanning the 11th to 19th centuries. Its branch in Palazzo Libera at Villa Lagarina displays art and liturgical objects commissioned by the Lodron family, who held the right of patronage over the parish church of Santa Maria Assunta from 1561 to 1804.
The museum entrance is in Palazzo Pretorio on Piazza Duomo. The early Christian basilica and the Porta Veronensis archaeological area are reached from inside the cathedral next door, not from the museum. The route passes through narrow rooms and stairs, including the passage above the cathedral.
The archaeological area of Porta Veronensis, reachable through the museum, preserves the Roman city gate that stood between the old episcopal palace and the front of the Basilica of San Vigilio. The bishops' residence, the palatium episcopatus, was built in this space between the 9th and 10th centuries, when the cemetery basilica became the city cathedral.
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