The Museo Diocesano di Ugento  – Santa Maria di Leuca, strongly willed by Mons. Vito De Grisantis, was inaugurated on the 6th of July 2005 and is set in a building located below the Cathedral, which once served as a burial place for the clergy and for the citizens. The museum displays works from the cathedral and the churches of the diocese. The heritage of the Diocesan Museum of Ugento consists of paintings on canvas, devotional statues in papier-mâché, vestments, missals, scrolls, and antiphonaries and cartaglorie. There are also many other precious religious objects, mostly in silver, as the chalices, vessels and Eucharistic thrones. Currently, the structure is under renovation, but will be returned to the public in the short time.