religious museums

  • Trier Cathedral Treasury Trier, Germany 1480

    Occupying a small room inside Trier Cathedral, this treasury displays some of Europe's greatest relics - including a nail from the Crucifixion and a sandal of St. Andrew - along with important religious art from a variety of periods.

  • Old Ursuline Convent New Orleans, Louisiana 1745-1753; 1845

    The Old Ursuline Convent in New Orleans has the honor of being the oldest building in the Mississippi Valley. It was constructed in French Colonial style 1745-53 for nuns from Normandy to nurse the poor and teach young girls.

  • Old Aurora Colony Museum Aurora, Oregon 1862
  • Museo dell'Opera del Duomo Pisa, Italy

    Housed in an old convent near the Leaning Tower, the Pisa Cathedral Museum displays a variety of important religious art from Pisa and elsewhere.

  • Neasden Temple England 1995

    This huge Hindu temple was constructed of marble on the outskirts of London in 1995. Full of intricate carvings of Hindu deities created entirely in India, it also houses an exhibition on India and Hinduism.

  • Museo Arcivescovile Ravenna, Italy

    Housed in the 6th-century Archbishop's Palace in Ravenna, the Museo Arcivescovile contains numerous Byzantine mosaics and the famous ivory Throne of Maximian.