Museo Diocesano
The Museo diocesano d’arte sacra “Sant’Apollonia” is inseparable from a specific moment in Venetian cultural life: it opened to the public in 1977, timed to a restoration-focused exhibition devoted to the bronze horses from St Mark’s Basilica—a project championed by the patriarch Albino Luciani. The museum was then officially inaugurated on 4 October 1980, anchoring these works within a wider sacred collection. Its setting also carries its own layered history. The museum occupies the former Benedictine monastery on Ammiana, an island near Torcello that has since disappeared. In the cloister, the Romanesque cloister—described as the oldest in Venice—houses the Lapidario marciano, a curated group of stone fragments from Roman, Byzantine, and Veneto-Byzantine periods, dated IX–X century. …
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