Dear Friends, of the Museum,

The NMCAH is museum building is closed for the summer. We are apologizing to our art patrons and visitors who have made trips to visit us.
Our museum is still growing in leaps and bounds. We are restructuring our museums goals, collection, budgets and plans.  We are currently searching for a new and exciting venues spaces for our new traveling exhibitions. By combining our museums art collection in partnerships with other museums and non-profit organizations, we are broadening our bases, enhancing visitor’s visibility and exposing our art collection while jointly cutting down our art expenses. We can also share with larger audiences and in more cultural communities our exciting art programs.

The good news is our NMCAH museum is currently lending art works, creating new exhibitions by combing joining art shows including historical documents with library collections. We are offering educational programs with traveling exhibits in different cities with Historical Societies and other museums around the country.

We are currently exhibiting at The Pope John Paul 2 Cultural Center in NE Washington, DC with a joint exhibition called “Love, Hope and Art”.  On Catholic New York website we have a wonderful video of the exhibit of the show.
In honor of Pope Benedict XVI ‘s visit to Fatima, Portugal on May 10th, 2010, NMCAH art curators held a painting contest for the anniversary of “Our Lady of Fatima.” His Holiness attended with the CYO Youth Organization and held mass in front of 1000’s of people. A panel of art experts will judge those new Fatima paintings and the winner will be announced this summer.

This November, The National Museum of Catholic Art and History will host again

From the NMCAH Collection, A beautiful life size Nativity, hand painted from the Philippines will be exhibited at the Pope John Paul 2 Cultural Center at Catholic University this Christmas. Opens November 15 thru January 6th, 2010 all groups and children are welcome to visit.