News

11 May 2018

The SBF Archeological collections for the Terra Sancta Museum: new findings and works for the archeological section

Whoever enters the Convent of the Flagellation today will notice a new name on some doors: SBF Archaelogical Collections. This will be the name of the new section of the Terra Sancta Museum which, ...

19 April 2018

Resumption of work for the Historic section of the Terra Sancta Museum: study of spaces and scenographic project.

A new stage of work has just been completed for the Historic section of the Terra Sancta Museum at the Saint Saviour Convent in Jerusalem. "The primary objective of these new meetings was to check ...

8 December 2017

Tonino Maurizi's Christmas. 110 paintings on show in Jerusalem.

The exhibition “A thousand times Christmas” will take place at the Sala Curiale of St Savior Monastery, Jerusalem from December 7th 2017 to February 2nd 2018. 110 paintings created by the ...

23 November 2017

Two “new” herodian capitals discovered at Terra Sancta Museum.

During the restoration of artifacts for the new setting of Terra Sancta Archeological Museum, two capitals, not yet dating, have been dated almost certainly to the Herodian period. Even if they come ...

20 June 2017

Ended the project: “Learning from close up-guided visits to historical and religious sites”. The students of the Jerusalem schools at the Terra Sancta Museum

The project “Learning from close up- guided visits to historical and religious sites” wanted and financed by ATS pro Terra Sancta and the Mosaic Centre Jericho مركز الفسيفساء ...

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 ...