Maltese-Canadian Museum

Magna Żmien’s Sharing Spaces project brings St Julian’s stories to life at APS Hub - APS Bank Magna Żmien Foundation, known for its extensive archive of Maltese social history, is bringing its work closer to the community through Sharing Spaces, a project capturing the stories, people and everyday life of St Julian’s.

The article below, ‘The wax image of the Infant Jesus and the story behind it’ was published in the Christmas Eve edition of the Times of Malta.

Father Manuel Parnis, MSSP, was the impetus in opening the Maltese-Canadian Museum to the general public. This took place on January 29, 2017, he appointed Richard Cumbo as the first curator.

The story behind an Infant Jesus wax image The link between a boy’s Christmas sermon in Sliema and an exhibit in an Ontario museum