Museum of Montserrat. The Museum of Montserrat showcases a selection of the most outstanding artistic and archaeological heritage at the thousand-year-old Abbey of Montserrat.
The museum contains six very different collections. More than 1300 pieces are exhibited in the museum, embracing a vast chronological period.
The original basis of the Museum of Montserrat was the so-called Biblical Museum', a huge, admirable work by the monk Dom Bonaventura Ubach, who spent long periods of his life in Jerusalem and Beirut from 1906. The oldest exhibit is an Egyptian sarcophagus from the 13th century BC, whilst the most recent is a painting by Sean Scully dating to 2010.
The sarcophagus forms part of the Archaeology of the Biblical East Collection, along with other objects from the cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, the Holy Land and Cyprus. There is also an exhibition devoted to the Iconography of Our Lady of Montserrat, which traces the changing way in which the Virgin has been represented in art over the centuries.
Since 2006 the Museum of Montserrat has a new section: a collection of about 160 Byzantine and Slavic icons that is titled Phos Hilaron. These icons presented on the environment of an oriental church where the light has an important role. The other collections are: Goldsmithery, comprising liturgical objects from the 15th to the 20th century; Painting from the 13th to the 18th century, which
The museum contains six very different collections. More than 1300 pieces are exhibited in the museum, embracing a vast chronological period.
The original basis of the Museum of Montserrat was the so-called Biblical Museum', a huge, admirable work by the monk Dom Bonaventura Ubach, who spent long periods of his life in Jerusalem and Beirut from 1906. The oldest exhibit is an Egyptian sarcophagus from the 13th century BC, whilst the most recent is a painting by Sean Scully dating to 2010.
The sarcophagus forms part of the Archaeology of the Biblical East Collection, along with other objects from the cultures of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, the Holy Land and Cyprus. There is also an exhibition devoted to the Iconography of Our Lady of Montserrat, which traces the changing way in which the Virgin has been represented in art over the centuries.
Since 2006 the Museum of Montserrat has a new section: a collection of about 160 Byzantine and Slavic icons that is titled Phos Hilaron. These icons presented on the environment of an oriental church where the light has an important role. The other collections are: Goldsmithery, comprising liturgical objects from the 15th to the 20th century; Painting from the 13th to the 18th century, which
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