MTA Brochure
As a Maltese living abroad stop a few minutes to savour the historical heritage and culture that your family’s birthplace can offer. Malta and Gozo are but an archipelago blessed by the second highest concentration of historical sites in the world. The archipelago boasts of a multitude of churches, palaces and museums as well as the oldest free-standing buildings in the world: the Maltese temples. All these finely wrapped in a background of blue sky and sea as well as hilly landscapes that, along with the local festas and ongoing activities round the clock, can only guarantee the most pleasurable of time.
Brochure courtesy of MTA.
Fondazzjoni
Patrimonju Malti
FPM is
a non-profit making organisation spreading awareness of the island’s heritage
locally and internationally, through museums, exhibitions and
publications. Its mission is to
collect and disseminate information, to assist with research, produce publications,
catalogues, books, documents and other material that reflects the same
aim. It also publishes the Treasures of Malta magazine
which is issued three times a year.
Treasures from Malta is a new podcast series presented
by Francesca Balzan, art historian and artist with a long connection with FPM.
It includes a number of individual interviews. You can access
the interviews with various Maltese personalities by clicking here:
https://www.patrimonju.org/fpm-podcasts
The Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti launched a digital space dedicated to the permanent exhibition on Victor Pasmore works. The Victor Pasmore website chronicles the gallery’s past projects, offers an online experience for our permanent collection and shares more information about Pasmore and his Maltese contemporaries. The new digital space can be accessed on https://victorpasmoregallery.com/
Maltese museum in Australia keeps heritage alive
Did you know that there is a museum dedicated to Maltese culture, heritage and traditions in Morwell, Latrobe Valley in Australia?
This is Australia’s first and only museum dedicated to all things Maltese, and its primary aim is to keep Maltese-Australian expats connected to their home country.
The Latrobe Valley Maltese Museum was founded by Mario Sammut in 2018.
Heritage Malta
Heritage Malta (https://heritagemalta.mt/) manages over 90 museums and
landmarks, national monuments and underwater sites including prehistoric caves, subterranean passageways, geology, ethnography, seven World Heritage
Sites and industrial heritage.
It is
a national agency committed to bringing culture
closer to the people through facilitating interpretation and accessibility,
both physical and intellectual, and turning museums and sites into
spaces for the exchange of ideas and knowledge. It has a professional team of highly respected curators and
archaeologists, architects, digital and scientific experts, conservators, and
restorers.
Treasure
to meet you is a new series of short videos where
various curators, historians and personalities with hands-on experience of
Maltese heritage found in various sites and museums who express what they think
about prestigious items, artefacts in their collections, structures of
particular interest and much more. This
series of youtube videos can be accessed on:
https://www.youtube.com/@HeritageMalta
Episode from Infotainment Programme ’Ħajjitna Ktieb’ during which John Demanuele interviews Michael Refalo on the Maltese in Egypt
https://youtu.be/tsx9eB5KU94
Dwejra, GOZO
The National Archives of
Malta
The National Archives of Malta is
the government entity that preserves and maintains a significant number of
records concerning the history of Malta and provides access to them for
research. It holds one of the largest archival collections in Malta, spanning
from the 1530s up to the current day. The National Archives is more than
government records. Many private collections are deposited and donated by
individuals. These collections add context, depth, variety, as well as a different
perspective on history, to the material already held in the repository. Visit us on
https://nationalarchives.gov.mt/en/Pages/default.aspx
MEMORJA
MEMORJA is the oral, sound and visual archive
of the National Archives of Malta intent on become the Maltese Islands’ main
depositor of national and public memory. By employing cutting-edge
research, methodologies, theoretical and archival approaches, MEMORJA collects,
records, transcribes and preserves community/shared and individual memories,
oral history/traditions, knowledge and experiences as well as makes them
available for research, interpretation and educational purposes. The
digital platform of the project is being developed: https://www.memorja.com/
Maltese passport
applications on Archives Portal Europe
The National Archives of Malta has uploaded a
selection of passport applications from its holdings, covering the period 1870
– 1938, on Archives Portal Europe. These applications may be accessed on https://www.archivesportaleurope.net/home To search for a particular passport application, please go to the SEARCH tab at
the top and enter the surname and/or name of the person in the search box on
the right. Then, tick ‘Malta’ from the list of countries/archives on the left
so that the search engine narrows the results to the Malta National Archives
records.