Museo Diocesano e Cripta di San Rufino

The Diocesan Museum of Assisi is housed since 2006 in the Palace of the Canons in front of the Cathedral of San Rufino. In the atmospheric basement of the palace can be visited the ruins of a Romanesque cloister and the crypt of the "Basilica ugoniana" (XI century), decorated by contemporary frescos. In the apse there is the Roman sarcophagus carved with the myth of Selene and Endymion in which were laid the remains of the patron saint Rufino. The collection includes a large lapidary found in the excavations of the Romanesque cathedral and a group of frescoes and paintings on wood of the XIII-XVII centuries. Also frescoes and processional banners from brotherhoods of Assisi, and an important collection donated by US historian Friederick Mason Perkins art (1874-1955)