The Malta Study Center sponsors digitization projects to preserve the history of Malta and the Knights of Saint John, with manuscript images through 1798.
The Center maintains a microfilm collection of more than 16,000 documents and dossiers of documents from Malta, covering the period of the 12th to the 20th century. The materials include the Archives of the Knights of Malta, the Cathedral Museum in Mdina, the Archives of the Inquisition, ecclesiastical records of the dioceses of Malta and Gozo, and musical compositions. The Center now sponsors digitization projects to preserve the history of Malta and the Knights of Saint John. It acquires antiquarian and modern publications dealing with Malta's history, literature, and culture, in addition to materials pertaining to the Knights of Saint John and the history of the Crusades.
To preserve the history of Malta and the Knights of St. John by sponsoring digitization projects, and to make that history available to researchers.
