Terra Sancta Museum | The Franciscans of the Custody of the Holy Land present TERRA SANCTA MUSEUM, located in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem. There will be a permanent exhibition in discovering the history of the fascinating land, in which the fates of many peoples living together, in the Holy Places, from the three great monotheistic religions have been mysteriously intertwined.

29 January 2020

Reconstructing Lost Foundations: The search for the artistic heritage of the Custody of the Holy Land

Claire Tallon, student of the Ecole du Louvre, Paris, gives us some findings from her bibliographic enquiry into the historic-artistic patrimony of the Custody of the Holy Land.

12 December 2019

A relic of the Holy Cradle returns to the Holy Land and its connection to the Holy Land Museum

A relic of the Holy Cradle of the child Jesus returned to Bethlehem as a gift from Pope Francis.

11 December 2019

Reopening of the construction site of the archaeological section of the Terra Sancta Museum

The first tasks dedicated to the consolidation and creation of new structures for the future museum displaying the archaeological discoveries of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum have begun.

29 November 2019

Selected Works from the collections of the Terra Sancta Museum

A first English-language catalog to present the best of the collections of the Franciscans of the Holy Land and continue to build the Terra Sancta Museum.

27 November 2019

Witnesses of faith re-emerge from the past in the future shop of the Terra Sancta Museum

The walls of the future shop of the Terra Sancta Museum have preserved for centuries the names of travelers who passed through the convent of St. Saviour. They will remain forever as a memory of their pilgrimages.

11 November 2019

What profession would you have chosen? Working and choosing a profession in the first century of our era