The Marial Museum of Sacred Art was founded by The Order of St. Mary the Virgin. a Lutheran monastic society of men devoted to the veneration of Our Lady the Blessed Virgin Mary.  The Order's apostolate in the world is to promote unity among Christians, dialogue among members of the world's historic religions, and to work for world peace, justice, and the safeguard of creation.

The Museum's mission is to introduce the general public to the beauty and esthetics of Sacred Art, to explain the spiritual and cultural significance of that art, and finally to encourage artists to devote themselves to the creation of sacred works. As such, the Museum's collection is focused on modern and contemporary religious art.

The Museum is first of all a visible, tangential space housing works of great beauty, products of the individual artist's creativity, meditation, inner beliefs, and search for the Divine. But it is above all an eminently spiritual space, for it aims at promoting, through its permanent collection and temporary exhibitions, dialogue, reconciliation, peace and unity among people in our fragmented and divided world.