News

23 March 2023

Call for Applications

Research Grants in Jerusalem For the Study of the Archives and Documentary Collections held by the Custody of the Holy Land in Jerusalem Deadline: 31 May 2023 Within the framework of the ...

16 March 2023

The Oriental libraries project : an update

A new partnership was signed in Paris in November 2021 between the Custody of the Holy Land and the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BNF). One year later, how far has this project ...

10 February 2023

Hana Irshaid, storyteller of the Palestinian heritage

The Terra Sancta Museum is the first Museum in the world focusing on the Christian heritage of the Holy Land right here, in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem. It displays the history of the ...

6 February 2023

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE TERRA SANCTA MUSEUM ON THE ACTS OF VANDALISM OF THURSDAY 2ND FEBRUARY 2023

The Terra Sancta Museum, as an institution directly involved in the preservation and protection of the Cultural Heritage of the Custody, shares the latter’s feelings of concern and disapproval ...

31 January 2023

Giulia Morotti, Guardian of the Condotte

From at least the 16th century until the 1990s, the friars recorded by hand all donations received for their works in the Holy Land. Their study reveals an untold story of the links between the ...

25 January 2023

The conversion of St Paul by Friedrich Pacher or when the Tyrol invites itself to the museum

25th January marks the feast-day of the conversion of St Paul. The Terra Sancta Museum has a painting representing this episode which will be one of the works displayed in the museum. Let’s discover it.