News

7 March 2022

The Fondation Mansart supports the Terra Sancta Museum !

The news of the support by the Fondation Mansart for the construction project of the Terra Sancta Museum was of 2021! Specialized in the conservation and promotion of the heritage for more than ...

1 March 2022

High above the Old City : the mystery of the bells of St Saviour

In the past few weeks, the researcher Alex Rodriguez Suarez, a specialist in the question of sound in the history of the Middle East, has started studying the bells of the convents of the Custody of ...

24 February 2022

Some ruins of the Holy Sepulchre on display in the Terra Sancta Museum

A few weeks ago, a team of restorers led by Piero Coronas was in Jerusalem to prepare a curious operation: the moving of columns and capitals « from the Holy Sepulchre » to the Convent of the ...

11 February 2022

Heritage and education: the project on behalf of young Palestinians continues at the Terra Sancta Museum.

In March 2016 the first section of the new museum of the Franciscans in Jerusalem, the Terra Sancta Museum (TSM), was inaugurated. Pro Terra Sancta, the NGO that supports the Custody of the Holy ...

7 February 2022

Palestinian histories. The links between the Franciscans and the local communities through the collections of the Terra Sancta Museum

Since they arrived in the Holy Land in the 13th century, the Franciscans have been closely involved in the lives of their contemporaries in areas which went well beyond spiritual and liturgical ...

28 January 2022

The Georgian capital of St Saviour : new evidence of the history of the siege of the Custody of the Holy Land

The month of July 2021 will without a doubt mark the history of the building of the Terra Sancta Museum for a long time. As the main structural work was being continued in what will soon be the ...