News

8 February 2024

When the Terra Sancta Museum brings together pilgrims of yesterday and of today

One of the great achievements of 2023 will have been the production of multimedia content which will allow visitors to plunge into the human epic of the journey from Venice to Jerusalem in the bygone past.

30 January 2024

The architecture firm Perrot & Richard joins the Terra Sancta Museum project

The Terra Sancta Museum entered the major construction phase last summer after a period of studying and dismantling its future spaces. On this occasion, the architecture firm of Perrot & Richard, ...

30 December 2023

The Hadrianic Column Base: From the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to the Terra Sancta Museum

Until October 2022, a visitor casting a glance in the dimness of the north aisle of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (an area known as the "Arches of the Virgin") would certainly have noticed the ...

18 November 2023

Exhibition at the Gulbenkian Museum: "a foretaste of what the Terra Sancta Museum will be like"

The Terra Sancta Museum, represented by Fr. Stéphane Milovitch, Director of the Cultural Office, and Fr. Rodrigo Machado Soares, Master of Ceremonies, was honoured to take part in the opening of the ...

5 October 2023

Craftsmanship at the service of the faith

The Custody of the Holy Land will celebrate, as every year, the solemnity of St Francis of Assisi on 3 and 4 October in St Saviour’s church in Jerusalem ; as well as in the 60 Franciscan ...

21 September 2023

An overview of the St Saviour’s convent workshops, from yesterday to today

In the heart of the Christian Quarter in Jerusalem, St Saviour’s convent is a hive of activity. If the old pharmacy and the Franciscan Printing Press are now well known, other traditional ...