Museums on the Christian Orient

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The museums on the Christian Orient comprise the most varied forms and types of museums.

On the one hand, there are church museums (of the Copts, the Armenians, etc.), which exhibit ecclesiastical sacred art, valuable manuscripts, church history and cultural contributions from their believers. The majority of church museums are located in the countries of origin of the religious communities. They are mainly attached to a bishop's palace, bishop's church or to a monastery complex.

Furthermore, there are primarily museums in Europe and North America, for example on Christian archeology in the Orient, icons, Byzantium or collections in university institutes as well as thematic or traveling exhibitions.

List of museums

a) Church museums in the countries of origin:

In Europe / North America there are usually:

b) Icon museums, but cross-Eastern churches or museums of Oriental or Eastern churches

  • Icon Museum, Recklinghausen - the most important museum of Eastern Church art in the western world.
  • Icon Museum Frankfurt - with changing exhibitions e.g. B. with Greek Catholic icons from the Polish Carpathians 2006.

c) and very few ecclesiastical museums on the Christian Orient in the Diaspora:

  • Museum of Mechitarists , Vienna - old Armenian art and library

d) Museums on Christian archeology and culture in the Orient:

In archaeological museums about the Orient you can also find individual early Christian exhibits (from late antiquity) or sections on the Christian Orient (see Christian archeology ). Some university institutes also have a collection of exhibits. There are also special museums on the history of former Christian domains and their culture in the Orient. B. to Byzantium.

  • Museum of Byzantine Art, Berlin
  • Museum of Byzantine Culture, Thessaloniki (since 1994) [1]
  • Byzantine Museum , Athens (since around 1914) (see also literature)
  • Oriental Institute Museum of the University of Chicago - Egypt, Palestine, Assyria
  • Museum of Western and Oriental Art Kiev - Byzantine painting, icons of the 6-12th centuries Century

e) Thematic or traveling exhibitions:

There are also traveling exhibitions in museums and collections that deal with specific topics relating to the Christian Orient:

  • 'From Asklepius to Felix Medicus: Miraculous Healings in Late Antiquity' (Asklepieion, Athens, and pilgrimage shrine of St. Felix, Cimitile); November 2006-March 2007, Berlin, Older Church History a. Christian Archeology (HU), Museum of Medical History
  • 'The shine of the Christian Orient' in the Frankfurt Icon Museum, 2002-3 (see also literature).

literature

  • Bersch, Alexandra [Hrsg./Bearb.], The splendor of the Christian Orient exhibition: The splendor of the Christian Orient <2002 - 2003, Frankfurt, Main> Parallel title: The splendor of Christian Orient, Icon Museum of the City of Frankfurt am Main. P. 367, 2002
  • Byzantium - THE WORLD OF THE BYZANTINE MUSEUM ATHENS. Introd. by Demetrios Konstantios. Athens 2004. 4to. 512 p. With over 550 mostly color, partly full-page. Fig., Bibliography, Ln. (a presentation of the collection since the museum's inception in the 1910s)
  • Hermann Goltz : The saved treasure of the Armenians from Cilicia. Sacred art from the Antelias Kilikia Museum. Reichert, Wiesbaden 2000. ISBN 3-89500-194-5