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Il-Ħaġar museum in Pjazza San Ġorġ, Victoria, will be welcoming visitors again from April 26. To satisfy the visitors’ requests, it has been decided to ex

Gozitan artist Aaron Formosa is holding a sacred art exhibition, Twilights, at Ħaġar Museum in Victoria. The theme of the exhibition is human existence in the light of Christ – the spiritual light which enlightens the human condition and makes it meaningful. Through the collection, the artist intends to offer a new concept of sacred art; a personal interpretation of Biblical and religious narratives – an interpretation somewhat different from those with which we are normally acquainted in...

Sacred art in Malta has experienced difficulty in ridding itself of the shackles of the Baroque era as far as Church commissions are concerned as the cumbersome shadows of Caravaggio and Mattia Preti conditioned its development. In the latter half of the 20th century, Emvin Cremona managed to achieve a balance between the acceptably modern and a monumental classicism easily understood by the churchgoers and that fitted within ecclesiastical parameters. The Assumption of the Virgin Anton Inglott...

Il-Ħaġar Museum is organising a number of cultural events to mark the eighth anniversary of the museum’s opening and the third anniversary of the demise o

Il-Ħaġar museum of Victoria has announced the programme prepared for the February 26-28 weekend to celebrate the eighth anniversary of the official inauguration

Il-Ħaġar museum in Victoria will be celebrating the eighth anniversary with a programme of events between February 26 and 28. The anniversary programme also coincides with the third year from the death of Mro Joseph Vella. An exhibition highlighting connections between Mro Vella and Oliver Friggieri, who died recently, will open on Friday, February 26. On Saturday, February 27, three events will occur – the third Joseph Vella memorial lecture by Rev. Prof. Saviour Caruana on St Augustine’...

PAINtings by George Scicluna,  edited by Joseph Borg & Maria Frendo “Pain is God’s megaphone to rouse a deaf world”. This is what renowned British author C. S. Lewis of Narnia fame wrote in his famous book The Problem of Pain and this is what came to mind as I visited Il-Ħaġar Museum in Victoria (Gozo) for the inauguration of George Scicluna’s exhibition PAINtings.  The choice of the name for the present exhibition has a history of its own.  Scicluna, together with our common frien...