Brescia - Museum of Christian Antiquities

(Local Name: Museo dell'Età Cristiana) In Via Piamarta in Brescia, is the Museo dell'Età Cristiana (Museum of Christian Antiquities), in the former church of Santa Giulia, with religious art, including carved ivories of the third-fifth centuries and a gold cross which belonged to the Lombard king Desiderius (eighth century). Immediately east of this is the ninth century church of San Salvatore, which has a beautiful crypt (42 columns).