19 September 2024

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 ...

6 September 2024

“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 ...

19 August 2024

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 .

3 August 2024

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 ...

29 July 2024

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 ...

23 July 2024

Volunteers at the Terra Sancta Museum: great joy but also great courage!

When you go into the corridors of the Custody of the Holy Land, the territory of the Franciscans, you are immediately plunged into the heart of Jerusalem: a real maze milling with life! The ...