Random Best Christian Museums in the World (14 items)

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  (#8) Bijbels Museum

  • Amsterdam, Netherlands

  Located in the beautiful Cromhouthuis on the Herengracht in Amsterdam, the Bijbels Museum is dedicated to displaying the intersections of the Bible, art, and culture. The museum’s collections include special Bibles, archeological finds, Egyptian objects, prints, and paintings, most notably the oldest printed Bible in the Netherlands, dated to 1477, and the first edition of the 1637 Dutch translation. The museum also houses many temporary exhibitions, each displaying some aspect of the Bible’s modern-day relevance in art, design, and storytelling.
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  (#11) Schnütgen Museum

  • Frankfurt, Germany

  Art collector Alexander Schnütgen was ordained to the priesthood in 1865 and was soon appointed cathedral vicar and parish chaplain of Dompfarrei St. Bartholomew Cathedral in Frankfurt, Germany. After being appointed to the board of the diocesan museum in 1875, Schnütgen proposed his vision for the museum, which included a reorganization of the collection and an exhibition of medieval art. Focused on the sacred art of Germany, Schnütgen Museum claims to allow visitors to “experience and intellectually understand the artworks in their spiritual charisma, their artistic quality, and function, aesthetically and emotionally. It conveys the European context of their formation in artistic, religious and historical terms.”
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  (#7) Bob Jones University

  • Greenville, South Carolina, USA

  Founded in 1927, Bob Jones University is a private, non-denominational Evangelical university in Greenville, South Carolina. In 1951, they opened a museum and gallery to the public, featuring European Old Master paintings, as well as furniture, sculptures, textiles, ancient artifacts, and much more. While initially located at the Greenville site of the university, as of September 2018, the Museum & Gallery is pursuing a new, separate location. 
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  (#9) Museum of Christian Art

  • Old Goa, Goa, India

  The Museum of Christian Art is located in the Convent of Santa Monica, Old Goa, and is reputed to be the only museum of its kind in the whole of Asia. Their website claims that “the [museum] symbolizes an effort to showcase the richness of Indo-Portuguese Christian Art from Goa. Intended to be a representative collection, every object displayed in the museum reflects the immense wealth of the Churches of Goa.” The facility features sculptures, furniture, ivory, paintings, textiles, metals, and many other miscellaneous artifacts. 
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  (#3) Billy Graham Library

  • Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

  Billy Graham, a world-famous evangelist who passed away in February of 2018, was initially against the concept of a library bearing his name. He believed that, instead, all fame and glory should point to God alone. He only reconsidered once the idea was pitched as an ongoing “Crusade” that would persist for many generations. Located in Charlotte, North Carolina, the combination library-and-museum (though marketed not as a museum, but rather a “ministry”) visually mimics Graham’s upbringing on a Charlotte dairy farm. The site was opened in 2007 and has since welcomed over one million visitors. The museum offers attractions such as a “Journey of Faith” tour, stories of those whose spiritual lives were impacted by Graham’s evangelism, and the original house of the Graham family. 
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  (#10) Keresztény Múzeum

  • Esztergom, Hungary

  Hungary’s Christian Museum (known as Keresztény Múzeum in Hungarian) is situated on the second floor of Primate's Palace in Esztergom-Víziváros, on the bank of the Danube river. The museum preserves European and Hungarian heritage through its collections of paintings, pages, and artifacts. The Christian Museum also features a library housing historical collections of the museum’s material. According to their website, their mission is to “preserve, show, expand, and transmit to the future generations the image and metaphors and applied art collections opened by the János Simor, prince of Simor, cardinal, Esztergom archbishop in 1875.”

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