Valencia Cathedral Museum

The museum, located inside the cathedral, is divided into three floors and its latest remodeling allows natural lighting of works and architectural elements, such as the space occupied by the Llibreria dels Borja, built between 1438 and 1442, and its helicoidal column, prior to that of the Lonja de la Seda.

One of the most suggestive places in the museum is the basement. The excavations carried out have allowed the remains of the Roman Valentia (three houses, where its entrances, lintels and water tanks are preserved), to discover the Visigoth foundations, to see the walls of the Islamic mosque on which the cathedral was built and to delve into the missing medieval church of San Pedro, built in the 13th century, which preserves bone remains from ancient burials.

The museum contains works by great painters such as Jacomart, Juan de Juanes, altarpieces from the 16th century, the original statues of the Puerta de los Apóstoles from the 14th century, Gothic images, the Great Monstrance of the Corpus Christi procession from the 20th century and some other objects. related to religious art.

The upper room of the museum, dedicated to Gothic art of the 14th and 15th centuries, offers the opportunity to see the restored sculpture of the Virgin Mary with the Child, lowered from the access door to the chapel of the Holy Chalice and located next to the original images of the Puerta de los Apóstoles, from the beginning of the 14th century.

Also on this floor is the Treasury room, dedicated to goldsmithing, with a 13th-century buttress, which exhibits the few preserved pieces of the reliquary of the Kings of Aragon, which Alfonso the Magnanimous deposited in the cathedral in 1437.

The rooms dedicated to the Renaissance offer a glimpse of the 13th-century walls and the superimposed factory, and display works, from the 15th and 16th centuries, by authors such as Filipo Paolo de San Leocadio.