Kircherian Museum information

The Kircherian Museum was a public collection of antiquities and artifacts, a cabinet of curiosities, founded in 1651 by the Jesuit father Athanasius...

inventions of the 17th-century Jesuit polymath who was the founder of the Kircherian Museum in Rome The Lives of Perfect Creatures: The Dogs of the Soviet Space...

Paedagogium in 1857, transferred first to the Kircherian Museum and then to the National Roman Museum, before being finally returned to the Antiquarium...

of Italy. The initial core of its collection originated from the Kircherian Museum, archaeologic works assembled by the antiquarian and Jesuit priest...

armouries displays from 1592. Today the museum has three sites including its new headquarters in Leeds. The Kircherian Museum was opened around 1660 by the Jesuit...

adjacent lot from 1651 the college housed the Kircherian Museum, sometimes viewed as the world's first museum The college was renamed Pontifical Gregorian...

Buonanni to take on the project of publishing a catalogue of Kircher's museum. After ten years work, he published the Musaeum Kircherianum (1709), a large...

2001) dedicated to the German Jesuit Athanasius Kircher and his museum, the Kircherian Museum. On the relationship of Rome and Egypt he curated La Lupa e...

means of restoring Christian art. In 1838 he was made prefect of the Kircherian Museum, a position he retained until his death. Marchi attempted a reorganization...

Roman College where he established an academy of archaeology at the Kircherian Museum. After the suppression of the Society of Jesus (1773) he became librarian...