MUSEO DELLA SINDONE

The Shroud Museum is housed in the evocative crypt of the Church of the Holy Shroud. One section is dedicated to the interdisciplinary research conducted on the Holy Shroud, where one can admire all the official photographs of the Shroud, starting with the famous first image taken in 1898 by the lawyer Secondo Pia. Also on display is the original camera, a precious testimony of the technical difficulties of the time.

Ample space is reserved for hypotheses on the formation of the body imprint, the three-dimensionality of the image, the structure of the fabric, micro-traces and medico-legal investigations. Another section reconstructs the certain and hypothetical history of the Shroud, from the second half of the 15th century, when it became the property of the House of Savoy, to the present day. Among the most important pieces are the box used to transport the Shroud to Turin in 1578 and the refined 16th-century silver and semiprecious stone reliquary that guarded it until the fire in the Guarini Chapel on 11 April 1997.

The Museum also offers a tactile route for the blind, with a three-dimensional representation of the front of the cloth that allows them to perceive its shapes through touch. The visit is enriched by video projections and DRCodes that deepen the contents on display, preceded by a short multilingual introductory video that guides the visitor to an analytical reading of the Shroud image.