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It includes a remarkable collection of ex-votos and many other objects deriving from donations from private citizens, including statues and paintings, nativity scenes from all over the world. There are also the vestments and missals of the celebrations for the elevation to the Papal Basilica by Cardinal Mayer and Don Tonino Bello.
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Museo civico archeologico del Pulo
Housed a restored building from the early 19th century, it exhibits various finds from various archaeological excavations, carried out since 1997 in the Neolithic village of the Azzollini Fund and in the nearby Pulo. The collection includes a selection of ceramics, lithic industries and fragments of the huts, dating back to the Neolithic and the Bronze Age, accompanied by captions, images and reconstructions. There are also some ceramic containers of the local 18th-century factories, which refer to the period in which the sinkhole was used as a saltpetre quarry.
Palazzo Dogana
Palazzo Dogana stands on the edge of the ancient village, facing the port. Over time it has been the seat of the Episcopal Seminary, then moved to its current location, and of the customs. After several years of neglect, the construction site that will transform the building into a luxury hotel was started in 2017.
The Museum-Picture Gallery of Molfetta is located in the premises of the Episcopal Seminary, in the historic center of the city. The museum houses finds from various excavation campaigns carried out in the wake of the " nineteenth-century enthusiasms ", in the Pulo di Molfetta and in other surrounding archaeological sites.
Cattedrale di Santa Maria Assunta
Its majestic facade was completed in 1744 after years of work started in 1610 and continued in the eighteenth century. On the façade, at the top, there is a large marble statue of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus. It became a Cathedral in 1785, as the Cathedral of San Corrado had become insufficient for the increased population.
A characteristic karstic collapse sinkhole created by the collapse of the vault and the dividing walls of one or more caves and tunnels formed starting from distant geological times and forming part of a complex karst system consisting of the confluence and intersection of several karst wells which originated precisely in that place from a series of geological coincidences.
Created in 1998 in memory of Raffaele Cormìo (1883-1952), a xylologist of Molfetta origin, it is a museum, unique in southern Italy, dedicated to the tree and to wood in its physical and technological characteristics, in the alterations and defects.