Museo della Beata Vergine di San Luca

E 'born from the desire to promote and raise awareness to the city of Bologna and visitors devotional heritage, historical, artistic and cultural linked image of the Madonna and Child, said to St. Luke, in the sanctuary of the same name on the Colle della Guardia. The collection of dr. Antonio Brighetti dedicated to the Virgin venerated in Bologna is the centerpiece of the museum, built-in objects belonging to the sanctuary, and of private and reproductions of objects and documents of other cultural institutions that citizens come together to describe the complete story of this exceptional sacra.A the ground floor teaching room introduces the exhibition dedicated to the image and its history, which begins in the circular room with double volume where there is a striking image reproduced and enlarged Icon. The contents summarize the history and legend: the transport of the Madonna in Bologna, the scientific surveys carried out in 1991 on the tablet that revealed a pattern oldest and most valuable dating from the ninth or tenth century. The first floor is dedicated to the Shrine of St. Luke and the Portico; exposure is introduced by a video on the recent restoration and eighteenth-century building with a wooden model of worship, followed by panels and boards tell the story of the construction of the sanctuary, with three churches that followed as the importance and devotion to the Madonna di San Luca and divulged only increased, and the design of the porch, the connection between the plain and the hill, this monument also wanted to and funded by citizens and devotees. In the next room a video projection showing the performance overhead of the processions through the centuries, while the bulletin boards on the walls displaying the programs of the processions with original prints of the eighteenth century. The rooms of the upper tower are built on two levels, the first theme park in the processions and the second in the history of the cult of the Blessed Virgin of San Luca. They are exposed equipment and examples of ceremonial objects and curiosities of all kinds, from eighteenth-century papier-mache statues that adorned the ancient canopy, the roof coverings icon, ex-votos devotional.