The diocesan museum of Pavia represents an evocative place with a dual soul, because it is aimed on the one hand at the faithful to whom it offers evidence of the birth of a religious community starting from its roots, on the other at visitors interested in the historical-artistic and architectural elements present in it.

The museum itinerary continues inside the underground rooms that made up the primitive crypt also illuminated by two round openings in the pavement of the Cathedral, two oculi that allow you to contemplate the luminosity of the great Renaissance dome.

Precious are the objects exhibited in the museum itinerary, among them a crosier in carved, painted and gilded elephantine ivory made by a Sicilian workshop by the hand of Arab craftsmen and dating back to the end of the 12th century.

[5] Some sculptures with a religious theme are also on display, including a Madonna and Child in painted terracotta, from the church of Santi Primo e Feliciano and the work of an anonymous Lombard master active between the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century, silverware, including some that belonged to Bishop Fabrizio Landriani (1617-1642)[6] and a large illuminated parchment choir dating back to the last decades of the 15th century.

In the central hall of the museum there is the large panel, which was originally the crown of a polyptych now lost, by Lorenzo Fasolo depicting the Madonna della Misericordia who welcomes the members of the Disciplini Bianchi brotherhood under her cloak, a work executed between the first and second decade of the 16th century and coming from the church of Santi Giacomo e Filippo.