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“Encountering the other: faith, art and dialogue at the Terra Sancta Museum Art & History”
Since his arrival at the Terra Sancta Museum Art & History on October 23, 2024, Italian Claudio Donà Domeneghetti has been working to bring the museum's treasures to the Israeli public. We went to meet him.
2024 Annual Report Terra Sancta Museum - Art & History
Terra Sancta Museum Art - Histoire is pleased to announce the release of its 2024 Annual Report.
Celebrating completion of structural work at Terra Sancta Museum Art & History
On Monday May 12, 2025, a notable delegation of consuls, notables, and representatives of Palestinian initiatives reaffirmed the universal character of Jerusalem during a preview of the museum's future exhibition rooms.
Classifying the sacred: Christian iconography in the digital age
We met up with Alix Pras, for whom looking after museum collections is both a passion and a real challenge, given the scale of the project to create the Museum of Christian Art and History in Jerusalem.
The “couriers”: The “guardian angels” of the Terra Sancta Museum Art & History
International exhibitions of the Terra Sancta Museum Art & History collections are not only an opportunity to publicize our project, but also to benefit from the expertise of other museum professionals. The exhibition “Treasures from Kings. Masterpieces from the Terra Sancta Museum” which was held in late 2023/early 2024 at Lisbon's Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, is a case in point.
Vincent Lemire: “A museum steeped in eight centuries of the Old City's history”
Vincent Lemire is a historian specializing in the history of the Middle East, particularly Jerusalem. He is the author of the comic book Histoire de Jérusalem (Les Arènes 2022), which has already been translated into 12 languages. We asked him to cast his eye over the Terra Sancta Museum Art & History to help us understand the contemporary issues surrounding it.
Terra Sancta Museum: the Popes' showcase in the Holy Land
In the Holy Land, the cradle of Christianity, the tomb of Jesus Christ unites Christians of all denominations in a profound act of faith. This ancestral bond has led popes over the centuries to donate precious objects to the Holy Places, affirming the spiritual importance of these sites for the Church as a whole.
The Terra Sancta Museum in Jerusalem, a missionary museum
The Terra Sancta Museum Art & History collection is a living collection! Brother Rodrigo Machado Soares explains why!
The female saints of the Holy Land in the museum’s collections
In a previous article, we discovered the great prophets of the Old Testamente through the works of the Terra Sancta Museum. In this article we will be concerned with four major female figures whose ...
“Few museums in the world can boast of having such collections”
Pedro M. Escudero Díez is a restorer. A native of Valladolid, in Spain, he generously offered his skills and his professionalism to the service of the museum this summer. He shares his impressions ...
When an art history thesis tells the story of the “birth of a museum-sacristy”
Interview with Marie Vergnes, who brilliantly defended her thesis entitled: “pivot and heart of worlds”: use, display and preservation of Catholic objects in the basilica since 1847 .
The centenary of the Basilica of Mount Tabor or the Transfiguration through the prism of art
In this year of 2024, the Custody of the Holy Land is delighted to celebrate with the local and Universal Church the centenary of the Basilica of the Transfiguration built on the slopes of Mount ...
