The Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art of Alghero is located in the historic center of the city near the cathedral of Santa Maria. The Museum was inaugurated on 30 June 2000 to testify the Christian and devotional experience in Sardinian culture. The Museum presents different thematic areas in which the artefacts are divided: wooden sculptures, paintings, silverware, cabinet making, stone materials and bronzes. The museum houses the liturgical treasure of the cathedral of Alghero and the other historic churches of the city. Of great importance is the reliquary of the True Cross: a work of Catalan origin, forged by an unknown silversmith from Alghero in the sixteenth century. The splendid late sixteenth-century processional cross, produced by a workshop in Zaragoza, is also very precious. There is also a chalice with coral bezels and a filigree monstrance, seventeenth-century works by Sicilian workers. Among the wooden sculptures we find many representations of the saints and the Virgin, such as the Madonna dei Naviganti. The bronzes also collect artifacts of considerable interest dating back to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, mostly coming from the Cathedral. Instead, the paintings retrace the exhibition cycle derived from scenes from the life of Christ and the Virgin by Rubens.