Museum

The Battle Over the Museum of the Bible

by Charlotte Allen

The Museum of the Bible is speaking to a lot of people—particularly those who are deemed beneath the attention of the educated elite. Continue Reading »

A Museum for Which to Be Thankful

by George Weigel

Three blocks from the U.S. Capitol, we now have a striking witness to the enduring power of the Word of God: the Museum of the Bible.  Continue Reading »

Picturing Mary

by Nora Hamerman

The new exhibit at Washington D.C.’s National Museum of Women in the Arts, “Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea,” conceived even before the museum’s birth in 1987, opened this year at long last, just in time for the feast of the Immaculate Conception. The exhibit, which will continue until Easter, is under the curatorship of Msgr. Timothy Verdon, director of the Cathedral Museum of Florence, Italy and a leading scholar of Marian art. Continue Reading »