The exhibition focuses on the role of the monasteries in the Susa Valley in shaping medieval society, recounting the past and the traces that have lasted until today.
Places such as Novalesa, San Michele della Chiusa, Santa Maria di Oulx, San Giusto di Susa, Santa Maria della Losa, the monasteries of Banda and Montebenedetto were active centres of cultural production, agricultural and artisan work, hospitality and innovation.
The title Working Silences recalls precisely this double dimension: silence as a form of listening, prayer and discipline, and operosity as the concrete expression of a faith embodied in daily rhythms, in the transmission of knowledge, in caring for the land, in the gestures of building, transcribing and welcoming.
Among the works on display are the paintings from the ancient Convent of Susa, the breviary of the Sacra di San Michele, the deed of foundation of the almost thousand-year-old abbey of St Giusto and an important return to the city: the sleeve of St. Francesco, a relic linked to the history of the Franciscan convent of Susa, now kept in Paris.
Via Mazzini 1 - 10059, Susa