Random Best Christian Museums in the World (14 items)

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  (#7) Bob Jones University

  • Greenville, South Carolina, USA

  Founded in 1927, Bob Jones University is a private, non-denominational Evangelical university in Greenville, South Carolina. In 1951, they opened a museum and gallery to the public, featuring European Old Master paintings, as well as furniture, sculptures, textiles, ancient artifacts, and much more. While initially located at the Greenville site of the university, as of September 2018, the Museum & Gallery is pursuing a new, separate location. 
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  (#1) Creation Museum

  • Petersburg, Kentucky, USA

  The Creation Museum is located in Petersburg, Kentucky, and advertises that they are a state-of-the-art museum that allows visitors to “venture through biblical history, stunning exhibits, botanical gardens, planetarium, zoo, zip line adventure course, and much more.” 75,000 square feet in size, the Creation Museum features nearly 150 exhibits and claims to retell the Bible chronologically through a series of “Seven C’s,” starting with Creation and ending with Christ’s return. Their mission is to show “why God’s infallible Word, rather than man’s faulty assumptions, is the place to begin if we want to make sense of our world.”

  The museum also has a sister location located about 40 miles south in Williamstown. This attraction, entitled the Ark Encounter, “brings to life the Ark of Noah’s day and equips visitors to understand the reality of the events recorded in the book of Genesis.”
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  (#10) Keresztény Múzeum

  • Esztergom, Hungary

  Hungary’s Christian Museum (known as Keresztény Múzeum in Hungarian) is situated on the second floor of Primate's Palace in Esztergom-Víziváros, on the bank of the Danube river. The museum preserves European and Hungarian heritage through its collections of paintings, pages, and artifacts. The Christian Museum also features a library housing historical collections of the museum’s material. According to their website, their mission is to “preserve, show, expand, and transmit to the future generations the image and metaphors and applied art collections opened by the János Simor, prince of Simor, cardinal, Esztergom archbishop in 1875.”
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  (#9) Museum of Christian Art

  • Old Goa, Goa, India

  The Museum of Christian Art is located in the Convent of Santa Monica, Old Goa, and is reputed to be the only museum of its kind in the whole of Asia. Their website claims that “the [museum] symbolizes an effort to showcase the richness of Indo-Portuguese Christian Art from Goa. Intended to be a representative collection, every object displayed in the museum reflects the immense wealth of the Churches of Goa.” The facility features sculptures, furniture, ivory, paintings, textiles, metals, and many other miscellaneous artifacts. 
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  (#14) Amakusa Christian Museum

  • Shimoshima Island, Amakusa, Japan

  This museum, located in Amakusa, Japan, houses many Christian relics, historical documents, and antique ceramics. The institution is mostly focused on the history of Christians on Kyushu, the most southerly of the four main islands of Japan. The Shimabara Rebellion, an uprising in what is now Nagasaki Prefecture from December 1637 to April 1638, is a primary focal point of the museum’s collection, as well as the Amakusa Shiro Battle Flag.
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  (#13) Pio Cristiano Museum

  • Roma, Italy

  Also known as the Pius-Christian Museum, this Vatican institution was founded in 1854 by Pius IX in the Lateran Palace. It was initially intended to house evidence of first-century Christian communities, with its items curated everywhere from the existing collection of the Museo Sacro (or Christian Museum) to various churches and non-religious locations in Rome. Many artifacts excavated from Roman catacombs were found to be unsuited to their original locations and were thus transported to the Pio Cristiano Museum for preservative purposes. The museum is located in Roma, Italy, and is both nearby and owned by the Vatican, though its influences are largely Christian rather than Catholic.  

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