Welcome to the Jubilee Museum website
Director's Welcome
Welcome to the Jubilee Museum and Catholic Cultural Center, located immediately west of and in sight of downtown Columbus, Ohio in the historic area known as Franklinton (founded 1797).
Ten years ago the Jubilee Museum began as a modest effort to prepare for the Jubilee Year 2000 and to display a few tokens of the history of the Diocese of Columbus. The four rooms at that time were thinly decorated with a few vestments, photos, books, and statues. Now ten years and twenty rooms later, we are crowded and greatly blessed. From the opening day things began to accelerate with countless donations, tours, and events, that it seems incomprehensible that a decade has passed since that opening.
There is an interesting quality to our many collections; they are the voices of the past. We can’t speak to this world after we die and even recordings are a bit of an artificial memory of our words and events. A more eloquent voice that speaks to the meaning of our lives is the good we do for others in the Name of Christ and the testament we leave in our earthly goods which speak of our faith, hope, and charity...
Pictured above: The zucchetto of Pope John Paul II being presented to The Jubilee Museum