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Ninety seconds on Gozo Cathedral Museum
The Cathedral shop sells the ticket for the cathedral and its museum together. The Citadel's museum combination ticket does not cover the cathedral or the Cathedral Museum.
It does not open on Sunday. Masses are held in the cathedral on Sunday morning, so plan the museum for another day of the week.
Silver for the high altar fills the Silver Vault, alongside paintings, clerical vestments, archives and a column fragment from the early Roman temple. The bishops' former carriage stands in the history displays a floor above.
Yes, and there is also a lift. The revamped museum is spread over three levels, reached by stairs and lift, with the silver on the first level and the history rooms above it.
Every Gozo bus route reaches Victoria bus station, a short walk from the start of the climb to the Citadel. From the ferry at Mġarr Harbour, route 301 runs direct to the Victoria terminus.
Yes. The cathedral and the museum behind it are both accessible to people with special needs, and a lift as well as stairs links the museum's three levels.
The silver of Gozo's feast-day altar and the old carriage of its bishops are on show at close range in the cathedral's own museum, round the back of the church.
The museum is given over to the cathedral's treasures: its paintings, archives, clerical vestments and silverware, in revamped rooms over three levels.
In the Silver Vault on the first level, a solid silver crucifix and twelve matching candlesticks make up the set used on the high altar during the feast of Santa Marija. The rest of the vault holds a wide range of other church silver, and a separate silverware collection sits alongside it.
The history and memorabilia rooms on the second level trace the cathedral's past through objects. Among them stands the former landau of the bishops of Gozo.
Look also for a column fragment of the early Roman temple.
Victoria's Citadel gate opens onto a broad flight of steps up to the cathedral door, and the museum sits behind the church. Buy the ticket at the Cathedral shop.
See the Cathedral of the Assumption first, so you know the high altar where the museum's feast-day silver is used. The cathedral, the vestry and the museum keep the same opening hours, so one stop covers all three.
In the museum, begin with the silver downstairs, then go up to the history rooms.
The combination ticket also admits you to Gozo 360, a film on the island's culture and history with a choice of sixteen languages. You can buy it at the Citadel Theater as well as the Cathedral Gift Shop. The film screens at the Citadel Cinema on Castle Hill, the road up to the Citadel, so you can fit it in on the way up or down.
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