Museum of the Order of Saint John

It’s a very good place to spend few minutes. The museum itself is a great piece of architecture.
Very nice staff and very welcoming.

The museum is free to visit and tells the story of the Order of St John from it's origins in 11th Century Jerusalem to it's role today with St John's Ambulance.
From the entrance, the right side of the museum deals with the establishment of outposts on Mediterranean islands, notably Malta, Rhodes and Cyprus after being forced out of the Holy Lands by the Ottomans.
The left side of the exhibition, with the Knights long gone, looks at the development of a new role for the Order of St John through the grant of a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria in 1888 and the creation of the St John's Ambulance that exists to this day.

Well, hardly any people are aware of this historical gem. The tours are a must and the museum is very well laid out. Thank You very much gor an informative and enjoyable weekend. X

Amazing to see the history of st john ambulance in so much depth. As a volunteer myself, was interesting learning about my organisation's history

A small but informative and we'll considered museum. Great place to understand the history and current forms of what was the Knights Hospitaliers.

Quaint little free museum, good if you have 30 mins to spare or are really interested in medieval Knightly Orders from the Crusade era.

We were married at the Museum in Sept 2022. The venue was stunning and needed no decoration from us to be breathtaking; Claudia and the whole team did an amazing job of keeping us calm and making sure we were in the right place at the right time. Finally, the cloister garden was such a special and intimate space to share our first drink with family and friends.

A small museum with two buildings and a total of three viewing rooms in both buildings. In the museum, by and large, there is not much to see. Since this Order is a functioning organization they provide for public viewing at additional charge under the pretext of two excursions at £ 12 each: in one building - a meeting room; and one room in the chapel, - it is in any circumstances would be difficult to call it a good value for money or reasonable to have it as two separate tours.
The community was organized in the 10xx and positioned itself as a community for the provision of medical services, but as is often the case with similar orders such as the Jesuit and the like, a banal way of enriching themselves on medical services inaccessible at that time, kind of soft power, which is confirmed by their exhibition, mentioned the wealth of the order and the use of jewellery in decorating buildings, can't imagine that jewellery is critical for medical treatment; the military orientation of the order declared in the exposition, most likely, implies the looting inherent in such institutions at that time. It was a great discovery for me that the hospital museum that I saw in Valletta, Malta was their property, sounds like they are everywhere.