Random Best Christian Museums in the World (14 items)

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  (#1) Creation Museum

  • Petersburg, Kentucky, USA

  The Creation Museum is located in Petersburg, Kentucky, and advertises that they are a state-of-the-art museum that allows visitors to “venture through biblical history, stunning exhibits, botanical gardens, planetarium, zoo, zip line adventure course, and much more.” 75,000 square feet in size, the Creation Museum features nearly 150 exhibits and claims to retell the Bible chronologically through a series of “Seven C’s,” starting with Creation and ending with Christ’s return. Their mission is to show “why God’s infallible Word, rather than man’s faulty assumptions, is the place to begin if we want to make sense of our world.”

  The museum also has a sister location located about 40 miles south in Williamstown. This attraction, entitled the Ark Encounter, “brings to life the Ark of Noah’s day and equips visitors to understand the reality of the events recorded in the book of Genesis.”
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  (#2) Museum Of The Bible

  • Washington, D.C., USA

  Located in Washington D.C., Museum of the Bible boasts numerous exhibits related to biblical history and Christian culture. Comprised of eight floors total, the museum hosts exhibits on the impact, stories, and history of the Bible, as well as countless artifacts from the Israel Antiquities Authority. Opened in November of 2017, the museum stands only three blocks from the U.S. Capitol and encompasses 430,000 square feet. From August of 2018 to January of 2019, the site is hosting an exhibit entitled “Pilgrim Preacher: Billy Graham, the Bible, and the Challenges of the Modern World.” This newest addition to the museum claims to offer visitors “an exciting look into the life of Billy Graham and the role of the Bible in his ministry.”
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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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  (#4) The Holy Land Experience

  • Orlando, Florida, USA

  The Holy Land Experience, located in Orlando, Florida, was built by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish Christian, in the 1990s. His primary motivations were to proclaim the Gospel and to inform the public of Christianity’s Judaic roots. The park opened on February 5th, 2001. In August of the following year, the Scriptorium was opened, an exhibit that featured the Van Kampen Collection of Biblically related artifacts. The Scriptorium is the fourth largest collection of such items in the world. In the midst of 2007's struggling economy, Trinity Broadcasting Network purchased Rosenthal's facility to house a new broadcasting studio. The park’s business continued and soon began to flourish, eventually culminating in the addition of the Church of All Nations, a 2,000 seat auditorium.
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  (#5) Byzantine & Christian Museum

  • Athens, Greece

  The Byzantine and Christian Museum is one of Greece’s national museums and is based in Athens. The first incarnation of the institution was opened in 1890 at the Holy Synod in Athens. Three years later, the BCM moved to a room in the National Archaeological Museum and remained there until 1913. The museum now stands adjacent to the Athens War Museum on the southern end of the city. The BCM contains over 25,000 artifacts and focuses on the Early Christian, Byzantine, Medieval, and post-Byzantine periods. Most items housed at the museum date between the 3rd and 20th centuries AD.
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  (#6) Museum of Biblical Art

  • Dallas, Texas, USA

  The Museum of Biblical Art was founded in 1966 by Mattie Caruth Byrd. It welcomes an average of 50,000 visitors annually and houses a substantial collection of biblically themed art. Though the facility unfortunately burned down in 2005, it was rebuilt in 2010 and “continues to uphold its legacy as a distinguished institution in the arts and education community of Dallas-Fort Worth.” The museum features eleven galleries, an on-site Art Conservation Lab, the National Center for Jewish Art, and sculpture gardens.
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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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#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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  (#12) Ernst Glück Bible Museum

  • Alūksne, Latvia

  Ernst Glück, a pastor and educator, was the first person to translate the Bible into Latvian. Though Glück died in 1705, a museum was erected in his honor in 1990. The institution, honored with Glück’s namesake, is hailed as the only museum of its kind in Latvia and the Baltic States. Located in Alūksne, a town in northeastern Latvia, the building was originally a trade pavilion built in the early 20th century. Since being transformed into a museum, it houses many religious documents, including various editions of the Bible in nearly 40 languages, with some dating back as early as 1694. 
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  (#13) Pio Cristiano Museum

  • Roma, Italy

  Also known as the Pius-Christian Museum, this Vatican institution was founded in 1854 by Pius IX in the Lateran Palace. It was initially intended to house evidence of first-century Christian communities, with its items curated everywhere from the existing collection of the Museo Sacro (or Christian Museum) to various churches and non-religious locations in Rome. Many artifacts excavated from Roman catacombs were found to be unsuited to their original locations and were thus transported to the Pio Cristiano Museum for preservative purposes. The museum is located in Roma, Italy, and is both nearby and owned by the Vatican, though its influences are largely Christian rather than Catholic.  
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  (#14) Amakusa Christian Museum

  • Shimoshima Island, Amakusa, Japan

  This museum, located in Amakusa, Japan, houses many Christian relics, historical documents, and antique ceramics. The institution is mostly focused on the history of Christians on Kyushu, the most southerly of the four main islands of Japan. The Shimabara Rebellion, an uprising in what is now Nagasaki Prefecture from December 1637 to April 1638, is a primary focal point of the museum’s collection, as well as the Amakusa Shiro Battle Flag.

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