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In 1926, while still in New York, Gibran expressed the desire of purchasing from the
Carmelite Fathers the hermitage, the monastery, and the adjoining forest in order to make it his retreat and final resting place. He died on April 10, 1931. On August 22, 1931, Gibran's body reached Bsharri. Mariana,
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On August 15, 1995, the museum reopened its doors to the public. The
Furniture, Gibran's notebooks, his personal library, and the exhibited objects and paintings were all in his apartment in New York. All the masterpieces are exhibited in the 16 rooms of the three floors of the museum leading in the
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The museum was an old cavern where many hermits sought refuge since the 7th century. By the end of the 17th century, the people of
Bsharri offered the hermitage the existing building erected during the 16th century and the surrounding oak forest to the Carmelite Fathers who were then living in the
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Rare are the paintings that Gibran dated, signed, and titled. He used to say "Visions cannot be titled." And to those who wondered why he didn't sign his paintings, he replied: "Wherever they might be found, my paintings shall be known as mine."
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Carmelite Fathers built the monastery progressively until 1862. In 1908, while some of the monks moved towards Bsharri to build the Saint Joseph Monastery, the others remained in the valley to take care of the whole property.
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Founded in 1935, the Gibran Museum possesses 440 original paintings and drawings of Gibran and his tomb. It also includes his furniture and belongings from his studio when he lived in
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his sister, bought the monastery and the adjoining lands and thus fulfilled a part of her brother's will: to make of the hermitage his burial place.
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