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6 June 2017

“The faces of Palmira” of the Terra Sancta Museum travelling toward Aquileia: An exhibition about the dialogue between cultures.”

The Terra Sancta Museum, among the precious archeological findings that the Franciscans preserve in their great collection, which is the result of many excavations and many acquisitions, preserved ...

22 May 2017

The Italian General Consul privately visits the Terra Sancta Museum

It’s been many years since the Italian General Consulate cooperates with the local institutions in order to safeguard and to promote the cultural heritage of the Holy Land, which could also work as ...

4 May 2017

The masterpieces of Venetian textile in the Holy Land: “for the glory of God”

It is known that the regalia represent one of the most precious goods of the ecclesiastic art. Since the beginning, both the Occidental and Oriental Church liturgies aim to put light on the ...

3 May 2017

The Emperor Adriano’s inscription is back in the Flagellation Convent in Jerusalem

It’s been a few days since part of the famous inscription of Adriano is back in the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, this inscription is dedicated to the roman emperor by the Tenth legion of the ...

8 March 2017

Central Europe visiting the Terra Sancta Museum

Yesterday March 7, 2017, the Terra Sancta Museum had the privilege to host the ambassadors of Poland, Czech Republich, Slovakia and Hungary, representing together the Visegràd Four, a cultural and ...

26 November 2016

The pharmacy of Saint Saviour

A selection of vases, texts, and documents. St. Francis room, Curia of the Custody of the Holy Land, New Gate (Jerusalem) The 30th of November at 3 pm professor Paola Brusa, from the Department ...

6 May 2016

April 2016 - Terra Sancta Museum – Via Dolorosa: what do people say?

Two weeks after the opening of the new multimedia installation on the Via Dolorosa, the Franciscans of the Holy Land are really satisfied with the result. The multimedia section of the museum about ...

6 May 2016

March 2016 - Jerusalem is home to a new museum within the walls of the old city, at the Monastery of the Flagellation

From the website of the Christian Media Centre Since mid-March 2016, Jerusalem is home to a new museum within the walls of the old city, at the Monastery of the Flagellation. It is called "Terra ...

7 March 2016

March 2016 - Terra Sancta Museum: Let the show begin!

Three, two, one… Terra Sancta Museum! On March 17, the first section of a unique museum will open up in Jerusalem (Monastery of the Flagellation). This will be the first exhibition showing the ...

11 August 2015

Restoration of the collection of Ottoman firmans

[From custodia.org]  While work is under way at the sites that will host the Terra Sancta Museum, the Custody’s archivist Br. Sergey Loktionov is preparing the archival documents that will be ...

29 June 2015

Terra Sancta Museum, ceremony of laying the foundation stone by the Custos of the Holy Land

On 25 June at 11 AM fra Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Custos of the Holy Land, blessed the foundation stone of the Terra Sancta Museum in Jerusalem. The museum project kicked off with a symbolic ceremony ...

20 May 2015

19/05/2015 - The Terra Sancta Museum project begins to take shape

In the Old City of Jerusalem preparations are underway. Work has begun at both monasteries that will host the museum—at the Monastery of the Flagellation, the second station of the Via Crucis, ...