Grotto Girl
Exhibition
12 May 2025 – 25 Jun 2025
Location: MUŻA – The National Community Art Museum
Grotto Girl is an artist-led community outreach initiative and artist residency by Louisa Chircop, hosted at MUŻA.
The project explores identity and belonging, inviting both the Maltese community and international participants into a meaningful dialogue about heritage, connection, and shared experiences.
Drawing from her upbringing in a post-WWII Maltese immigrant household in Sydney, Australia, the artist weaves together personal and community narratives.
Just as people draw water from a well, Grotto Girl draws stories from the people, using MUŻA’s central courtyard well as a conceptual starting point.
Identifying herself as the Grotto Girl, the artist transforms this space into a symbolic grotto, an evolving expression of collective voices, histories, and identities.
Her personal journey serves as a catalyst for reconnection, inviting the Maltese community at MUŻA to explore their own sense of identity while joining her on a shared path of discovery.
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Your MUŻA: Celebrating Giuseppe Calì
Exhibition
12 Jun 2025 – 25 Jun 2025
Location: Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady in Mosta
This is a touring exhibition spotlighting local artistic genius Giuseppe Calì – the second in the series ‘Your MUŻA’, an outreach and accessibility initiative bringing works from the national art collection closer to the public by temporarily loaning them to different localities with which they bear a connection.
At the Basilica of the Assumption of Our Lady in Mosta, also known as the Rotunda, Calì was commissioned to create various works – including paintings of the Madonna of the Rosary, the Holy Trinity, the prophets and the angels, and the Eight Stages of the Life of Jesus Christ.
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Melitensis
Exhibition
14 Jun 2025 – 06 Jul 2025
Location: National Museum of Natural History, Mdina
The exhibition ‘MELITENSIS’ at the National Museum of Natural History in Mdina explores the use of the Latin adjective ‘melitensis’ – meaning ‘from Malta’ – in scientific nomenclature.
Through specific examples, the exhibition highlights the Maltese connection in various species, from bacteria to plants, invertebrates and vertebrates, in a myriad of fossil and recent forms. Visitors are invited to further explore the rich history of biological nomenclature and its cultural and scientific significance.
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Protect Me
Exhibition
06 Jun 2025 – 17 Jul 2025
Location: MUŻA – The National Community Art Museum
‘Protect Me’ by artist Alberto Favaro looks at what it really means to protect someone or something.
Protection often comes from a place of care, but it can also mean taking away freedom.
It shows how the person protecting can end up having power over the one being protected, whether at home or politically.
The exhibition starts by looking at everyday life.
It shows how people try to protect their belongings and routines, sometimes in an obsessive way, as a way to avoid change or loss.
Then it moves on to bigger issues, like how the idea of protection is often used to justify strict government rules, closed borders, and fewer democratic rights.
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Smuggler
Exhibition
20 Jun 2025 – 27 Jul 2025
Location: MUŻA – The National Community Art Museum
Smuggler is a playful, thoughtful look at culture, tradition, and what it means to belong.
This exhibition by artist Erik Kaiser centres around the prickly pear cactus (Opuntia ficus-indica).
Although the cactus isn’t originally from Malta, it has become a common and recognisable part of the island’s landscape.
For the artist, the cactus represents strength, survival, and the ability to adapt. At first, his paintings show still-life scenes using personal and everyday objects.
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Melite Civitas Romana Project – Excavation Tour
Tour
24 Jun 2025
Tuesday: 08.00 – 10.00
Domvs Romana, Rabat
Get the latest updates on the exciting archaeological finds of the Melite Civitas Romana Project, an ongoing research project being carried out at the Domvs Romana in Rabat, between Heritage Malta, IDEX, and Intercontinental Archaeology.
On Tuesday 24th June, there will be five guided tours in English, where you’ll be able to watch archaeologists working on-site and learn all about their excavations. Tours will take place every 30 minutes between 8:00am and 10:30am (last tour at 10am) and must be booked beforehand by buying tickets at any HM museum or site, or online here Store – Heritage Malta .
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