Former Diocesan Seminary (Diocesan Museum, Archive and Library)

North of Salerno Cathedral stands the former Archiepiscopal Seminary, founded in 1563 by Archbishop Gaspare Cervantes after the Council of Trent. The building was also the last seat of the famous Schola Medica Salernitana, suppressed in 1811, and took on its present form in 1832, when it was raised and given a new façade. After the restoration that followed the 1980 earthquake it became home to the diocesan museum, archive and library.We recommend taking your time over the San Matteo Diocesan Museum: here you can admire the cycle of the Salerno ivories from the 11th and 12th centuries, among the most complete of the Christian Middle Ages, together with the illuminated sheets of the early 13th-century Exultet, panel paintings from the 14th to the 16th century and works by Andrea Sabatini.