Museo della Sindone

The Shroud Museum is set up in the atmospheric crypt of the Church of the Holy Shroud. One section is dedicated to interdisciplinary research conducted on the Sacred Sheet, where it is possible to admire all the official photographs of the Shroud, starting with the famous first picture taken in 1898 by the lawyer According to Pia. Also on display is the original camera, valuable testimony to the technical difficulties of the time.

Ample space is reserved for hypothesis on the formation of the body print, to the three-dimensionality of the image, to the fabric structure, at micro-tracks and the medico-legal investigations. Another section reconstructs the history, both certain and hypothetical, of the Shroud, from the second half of the 15th century - when it became the property of Savoy House - up to the present day. Among the most important pieces are the crate used to transport the Shroud to Turin in 1578 and the refined 16th-century shrine in silver and semiprecious stones, who guarded it until the fire on 11 April 1997 in the Guarini Chapel.

The Museum also offers a tactile path for the blindwith a three-dimensional representation of the front of the cloth, which allows you to perceive its shapes through touch. The visit is enriched by video projections e DRCode in-depth study, and is preceded by a short multilingual introductory video which guides the analytical reading of the sindonic image.