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Il-Haġar – Extended Opening Hours
July 10, 2023 @ 09:00 - 23:00
Extended opening hours from Monday 10 to Sunday 16 July 2023
Temporary attractions
• Exhibition of no fewer than 62 works by Francesco Zahra (1710-1773), Malta’s foremost 18th-century artist, curated by Prof. Keith Sciberras and located on Level 3
• Treasures from the Conventual Church of St Francis, Victoria
Permanent attractions
• An impressive number of works that form the museum’s collection, ranging from some of the greatest Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Maltese artists to contemporary artists
• The Joseph Vella Music Archive
• The Joseph Baruch Silver Collection, including terracotta oil lamps and pottery from the period of divided kingdoms of Judah and Israel (2,800 years old)
• Coin display dating 110BC
• Historical items, documents, and liturgical objects belonging to St George’s Basilica
• Papal paraphernalia, including the white zucchetto used by Pope Benedict XVI on the day of his Abdication, and Pope Francis’s last worn cardinal’s cassock prior to his Election as Bishop of Rome