The Sacred Art Museum is located in a small, new building opposite the north side of the Collegiate Church of Santa María del Campo. It was designed by the architect Manuel Gallego Jorreto and its interior is organised around a central staircase that forms the backbone of the permanent exhibition.
The museum hosts an important collection of precious metalwork dated between the 16th and 19th centuries belonging to the collegiate church. The two most important pieces are the Eucharistic chest (1691) and the monstrance (1695), which were donated to the church by María Ana de Neoburgo, the second wife of Carlos II. The queen married by proxy in 1689 and the following year set sail for Spain. The poor weather conditions meant that she had to dock in Ferrol and later arrived in A Coruña, where she was received with honours by the population. In gratitude, sometime later, she gifted the Collegiate Church with these two incredible pieces of German Baroque silver, produced by the same artist, Johann Sebastian Mylius.
The rest of the liturgical items on display are a varied sample of chalices, navetas, censers, reliquaries, sceptres and crosses belonging to the most important silversmith schools such as those of A Coruña, Córdoba, Salamanca and Compostela.