Sculptor Paolo Di Zinno built thirteen ingenious steel-and-wood machines in 1748, contraptions that let children and adults appear to float in the air as angels and saints above the crowds during Campobasso's Corpus Domini procession, a piece of devotional engineering still considered remarkably advanced for its time.
The museum keeps these Misteri, along with photographs and film of the procession itself, on display the rest of the year, offering a rare close look at machines usually seen only from a distance and in motion each June. It is a small, community-run space more than a formal institution, and it treats the procession less as folklore than as a piece of living civic identity.
