Museum

The Diocesan Museum of Urgell was created in 1957 during the episcopate of Bishop Ramon Iglesias Navarri. A series of enlargements and reforms of the cathedral’s chapterhouse have been undertaken from the very start, the latest one in 1988. The museum currently occupies the former Dean’s house and La Pietat chapel.

The museum’s collection is comprised of pieces from the treasury of the cathedral and the different parishes in the dioceses and includes paintings, sculptures, goldwork, lipsanothecas, clothing and codices dating from the Romanesque until the twentieth century. Outstanding works including the murals from the village of Baltarga (twelfth century), the Christ of Olp (thirteenth century), the miniature codex of Beatus (tenth century), a set of lipsanothecas and reliquaries (eleventh to twelfth centuries), the altarpiece from Abella de la Conca by Pere Serra (fourteenth century), the polychrome stone altarpiece of Saint Bartholomew from Cubells (fourteenth century) and the silver urn of Saint Ermengol (or Hermengaudius) by Pere Lleopart (1753), among others.