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The exhibition of the Museum is divided into four sections: Silver, Golden Bronzes and Ivories; Vestments; Volumes and Parchments; Exultet.
In the section dedicated to the SILVER, GOLDEN BRONZES AND IVORIES we find among other works of art: the 5 busts of the Patron Saints (Saint Eleuterio bishop and martyr, Saint Ponziano I Pope, Saint Anastasio deacon, Saint Secondino Bishop and Saint Urban Pope of 1717); a beautiful wooden ciborium over 1,75 m high covered with a silver foil with embossed and jet ornaments, probably dating back to the Renaissance; filigree ampolline, candlesticks, palms and carteglorie; a monstrance and several chalices attributed to the school of Benvenuto Cellini; a shrine-shaped reliquary with in the center a painting depicting the Redeemer, attributed to the school of Perugino; rectangular boxes, Eucharistic vases of the XII sec. and a box in ivory of circular shape with light Byzantine figures datable to the X sec.
Among the SACRED VESTMENTS you can admire fabrics, brocades and embroidery in a wide exhibition of plains, Dalmatians, tunics, pivials, veils for chalices, mitres. The vestments all belonged to the Bishops of the diocese of Troja and the oldest pieces date back to '400.
In the section VOLUMES AND PARCHMENTS are kept as many as 554 parchments dated from 1034 to 1919; these are acts concerning the Cathedral and the Chapter, pontifical letters and bishops, ducal privileges, imperial donations, deeds of offer, sales contracts, concessions, trade-ins and legacies. Among them is one with the seal of Frederick II. Among the Volumes, consisting mostly of chorals and antiphonaries, stands out the missal Trojanum, manuscript of the thirteenth century, rich in fine miniatures with the transcription of chants in Gregorian music.
A separate speech deserves the 3 scrolls in illuminated parchment called EXULTET, from the first word of the liturgical chant of Easter. The exultet was unrolled by the cantor on the pulpit, showing the faithful the back of the parchment, which presented finely illuminated illustrations, a sort of commentary in images of the content of the Easter preconio. In this way even the faithful who did not know Latin could understand the contents of praise. Of these rare and precious parchments only 33 remain in the world and three are in Troy in the Cathedral Treasury.
