Musée Bible et Terre Sainte, Biblical archaeology museum in the 6th arrondissement, Paris, France

The Musée Bible et Terre Sainte is a museum run by the Institut Catholique de Paris at 21 rue d'Assas, in the 6th arrondissement. Its collection of 3,000 pieces, from ceramics to objects of daily life, is displayed chronologically and covers Palestine from the Neolithic to the Crusader period. Among the pieces is a funerary mask from around 7000 BCE, of which only five are known worldwide.

The Bible and Holy Land association was founded in 1957; the museum itself opened in 1969 under Canon Leconte and Father J. Starcky, and in 1994 it moved into its present rooms on the ground floor of the Institut Catholique de Paris, in the courtyard left of the oratory. It is open Saturday afternoons, free of charge.

The collection shows how people lived in ancient Palestine through everyday items like tools, pottery, and household objects arranged by time period. Visitors can see the routines and habits of past communities reflected in these artifacts.

The museum sits at 21 rue d'Assas, in the courtyard to the left of the oratory, on the ground floor of the Institut Catholique de Paris. It opens on Saturday afternoons and admission is free. The nearest métro station is Rennes on line 4, a short walk from the entrance.

The museum's oldest piece is a funerary mask from around 7000 BCE, probably from the south-west shore of the Dead Sea; only five such masks are known worldwide. Two jars from Qumran are displayed alongside a Dead Sea Scrolls fragment.