The Diocesan Museum of Palermo is located in the historic center of the city. The Museum was inaugurated in 1927 in the Archbishop's Palace by the will of Cardinal Archbishop Alessandro Lualdi. The Museum was temporarily closed for works from the 1980s until the beginning of 2000. Today the collection includes about 200 works including sculptures, paintings and pieces of decorative art that mostly come from destroyed Palermo churches. The first nucleus of the collection consisted of sculptures and Renaissance and Baroque reliefs from Sicilian architecture. This first group includes the medieval table of Santa Rosalia, the fifteenth-century statues of Sante Vergini in the chapel of Santa Cristina in the Cathedral and finally the relief "The fall of Christ during the ascent to Calvary". Later, thanks to various donations, paintings by Giorgio Vasari, Marco Pino and Antonio Alberti known as the Barbalonga also converged. Recently the fifteenth-century works “the Madonna dell'Itria” and the “Santa Rosalia” by Giacinto Calandrucci have also joined.