Space for cathedral gems
When I was the acting director of the Church museums and the Church media in the early 1970s, I felt there were two essential things on which I reported, namely the security, which was very lax, and the need for more space to show the various gems...
When I was the acting director of the Church museums and the Church media in the early 1970s, I felt there were two essential things on which I reported, namely the security, which was very lax, and the need for more space to show the various gems which lay hidden.
On my insistence we affected a hotline with the police that saved the Caravaggio and fixed more fire-fighting equipment.
I even suggested two armed soldiers in gala uniform to prevent some mad Islamic fundamentalist putting bombs in or near St John's.
As regards more space, I suggested, and still do, that the two large corridors should be used for exhibitions.
If further space is needed the graveyard should be covered by roofing it over.
Furthermore, a decrepit house across the road which formerly housed the P&O should be refitted to form part of the museum as in the case of Mdina where all the gems are housed not in the cathedral but in the old seminary.