In May 2024, second-year UM undergraduates from the Department of Music Studies students paid a visit to the Mdina Metropolitan Archives.
The purpose of this informative visit was to learn more about the multitude of resources available to them on Maltese musical history and culture.
They were accompanied by Prof. Philip Ciantar, the Director of the School of Performing Arts.
The Metropolitan Archives are in fact enriched with a collection of dissertations by various researchers who made use of the Cathedral Archives in the process of submitting their theses to the various faculties and departments of the University of Malta, particularly those focusing on general history, art history, baroque studies and musicology.
There are also about 100 boxes with pamphlets and articles, as well as all the publications of the renowned medieval scholars Dom Mauro Inguanez O.S.B. and Fr Daniel Callus O.P., a large collection of bound volumes of The Malta Government Gazette, several files with press cuttings and a collection of booklets published in connection with Maltese religious festive celebrations.