European missionaries visited China from the mid- Ming Dynasty, bringing knowledge of philosophy, religion, science, technology and art from China back to Europe. Thus, during the flourishing period from Kang Xi to the Qian Long emperors, from the beginning of the 17th Century to the end of the 18th...

The exhibition ‘Journey to the Ends of the World: Michele Ruggieri and the Jesuits in China’ is jointly organised by the Cultural Affairs Bureau, Macao Museum and the National Archives of Rome. Michele Ruggieri was the first Jesuit to learn Chinese and was approved to conduct missionary ...

The Macao Museum is a space dedicated to the history and culture of Macao, possessed of a vast number of objects of historical and cultural value, which demonstrate the way of life of the various communities that have inhabited the city for centuries.