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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.
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 ...
The history of the parish of Jerusalem through the eyes of a young Arab friar
As part of his thesis for a Bachelor’s degree in Theology, Fra Noor Tamas, a young Iraqi Franciscan of the Custody of the Holy Land, studied the history of the Latin parish of Jerusalem. He ...
