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Cultural heritage, education and local community : A new project is launched
The Terra Sancta Museum has officially launched a new project called "Terra Sancta Museum (TSM): A Community Living Museum for Palestinian Youth" (ENI/2019/407-798). Funded by the European Union, the ...
Mosaic: evidence of eras, religions and cultures in the Holy Land
Introduction The mosaic constitutes, thanks to its great antiquity, a unique piece heritage in mediterranean art and culture. In particular, the cradle of most antique civilization and crossroads ...
The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem and the Holy Land
The Terra Sancta Museum will have a hall dedicated to the history of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre. The origins of the Order go back to the end of the 11th century when, according to ...
The Pharmacy of St. Saviour in Jerusalem
A singular patrimony of knowledge in the Middle East A rich collection of jugs, saplings, apothecary vases and jars, pharmacopoeia, recipes and carefully preserved medical records make up the ...
Medicine in the Holy Land: Symbol of International and Interreligious Charity
Jerusalem, 1785 In 1785 an epidemic of the plague swept the Holy Land. Years later, in 1898, Paolo Gaidano immortalized in a painting, the piety of the Franciscan friars who, without regard for ...
Χαίρε, Μαρία. Ave Maria. The origins of the Marian cult
The name of the city of Nazareth - which is cited neither in the works of Giuseppe Flavio, nor in Talmud - appeared for the first time in the Gospels. According to saint Luke, the episode of the ...
Design of the sacred: the new catalogue of liturgical vestments and fabrics
The new catalogue of the Terra Sancta Museum dedicated to sacred vestments, edited by Maria Pia Pettinau Vescina with the contribution of Danièle Véron-Denise, a well-known expert in liturgical and ...
From the Ecole des chartes to Jerusalem to study a 15th century manuscript
Interview with Geneviève Alday, student and archivist and paleographer in Paris, came to Jerusalem to make studies on a manuscript from the Archives of the Custody of the Holy Land. The ...
Preparing the opening of the Terra Sancta Museum: The restoration of a mosaic found on Mt. Sion
The archaeologist Daniela Massara, researcher and curator of the archaelogical collection of the Terra Sancta Museum, brings us the discovery of a mosaic found in 1930.
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.
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.
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.
