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A church treasury or church treasure is the collection of historical art treasures belonging to a church, usually a cathedral or monastery. Such "treasure" is usually held and displayed in the church's treasury or in a diocesan museum. Historically the highlight of church treasures was often a collection of reliquaries.

Examples and museums of important church and cathedral treasures
Austria: • Salzburg Cathedral Museum • Imperial Treasury in the Hofburg Palace, ViennaCathedral museum in the cathedral church of St. Stephen of Vienna, also called St. Stephen's Cathedral. Belgium: • Basilica of Our Lady, archeological site and religious art museum ("Teseum"), Tongeren Czech Republic: • Treasury of St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague England: • Most cathedrals have treasuries, though these generally lack the medieval metalwork of continental treasuries, which did not survive the Reformation. The exceptions to this include: • Canterbury CathedralLincoln CathedralDurham Cathedral France: • Cathedral Notre-Dame de Paris • Cathedral-Basilica of Saint-DenisCathedral of Reims, in Palace of Tau Germany: • Aachen Cathedral Treasure • Diocesan Museum, Bamberg, formerly the cathedral treasure of Bamberg Cathedral • Treasure of Brunswick Cathedral, very much later called the Welf Treasure, since 1928 largely sold • Essen Cathedral TreasureHalberstadt Cathedral TreasureHildesheim Cathedral Museum (Cathedral treasure and diocesan museum) • Cathedral Treasury, Cologne • Cathedral and Diocesan Museum, Mainz with treasury in St. Nicholas' Chapel • Diocesan Museum, Osnabrück with the cathedral treasure • Archepiscopal Diocesan Museum and Treasury, Paderborn • Cathedral Treasury and Diocesan Museum, PassauSpeyer Cathedral Treasure in the Historical Museum of the PalatinateQuedlinburg Cathedral Treasure • Bishopric Museums, RegensburgTrier Cathedral TreasuryWürzburg Cathedral Treasure • Stift Museum, Xanten, previously the Xanten Cathedral Treasury (Domschatzkammer Xanten) :- also the cathedrals of Bautzen, Eibingen, Merseburg, Minden, Naumburg etc Italy: • Bozen Cathedral Treasure • Brixen Cathedral Treasure • Monza Cathedral, with the Iron Crown of Lombardy, the Late Antique ivory Poet and Muse diptych, of about 500, as well as several of the small metal 6th century Monza ampullaeTroia Cathedral Treasure (planned to be transferred to the diocesan museum) • Monreale Cathedral, important church treasure • Palermo Cathedral, treasure includes the crown of Empress Constance of Aragon • Treasury of St Mark's Basilica, Venice, famous for its collection of Byzantine loot • St Peter's, Rome, and many other Roman churches Netherlands: • Church treasure of Saint Servatius Basilica, Maastricht Portugal: • Braga Cathedral Treasure Spain: • El Escorial Switzerland: • Treasure of the Basel Minster == See also ==
Literature
• Lucas Burkart: Das Blut der Märtyrer. Genese, Bedeutung und Funktion mittelalterlicher Schätze. Böhlau, Cologne, 2009,
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