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Curiosities from the Archives

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="5735" img_size="large"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]The testimonies documented in the Inquisition archives are full of emotional narratives that reflect movement and Mediterranean connectivity. Like this...

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Visits 2021 highlights

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="5722" img_size="large"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]14.06.2021 : The Cathedral Archives welcomed the Turkish State Archivist’ Professor Ugur Unal. A short presentation on Maltese-Ottoman political r...

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Visits 2020 highlights

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="5763" img_size="large"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]24.01.2020 : Dr Valeria Vanesio and Claudia Garradas on-site curator of the Malta Study Centre studying and compiling the metadata for the Spoils of...

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Visits 2019 highlights

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="5757" img_size="large"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]12.06.2019 : Maestro Brian Schembri studying the newly discovered manuscript score of the opera L’ Alpino composed by Carlo Diacono in 1917.[/vc_c...

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Visits 2018 highlights

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="5749" img_size="large"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]27.01.2018 : A high delegation from the European Early Music Network REMA was hosted and given an on-site lecture by archivist Mgr John Azzopardi an...

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Visits 2017 highlights

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_single_image image="5742" img_size="large" onclick="img_link_large" img_link_target="_blank"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]28.09.2017 : Catholic Archives Society (UK) visit[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc...

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Music at the Mdina Cathedral Archives

[vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]The Mdina Cathedral Archives own a rich collection of music of which numerous important compositions have been performed and recorded. This project was made possible through the pioneering work of Mgr John Azzopardi, Director of the ...

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Digitisation Project

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]In September 2015, the Malta Study Center has worked with the Cathedral Archives of Mdina to inventorise and digitise documents which had not yet been microfilmed. These had been done in order to preserve historical documents which shed light on...

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