Luogo - Museum
MUSEO DI ANATOMIA COMPARATA
Where
VIA ALFONSO BORELLI, 50, Roma
Like other science museums of Rome University Museum of Comparative Anatomy "Battista Grassi" draws its origins from the Museum of Mineralogy et Historia Naturalis that in 1805, during the pontificate of Pius VII, was set up at the Achiginnasio of Wisdom. Many of the exhibits are registered in the catalog manuscript dating from around 1850, preserved in the State Archives. Other items are still the oldest: they derive from the celebrated Jesuit Athanasius Kircher collection organized around the first half of the seventeenth century to the Roman College and was dismembered following the confiscation of church after the fall of Rome. Their membership in the collection Kircheriana is documented by the description in the catalogs of the Kirchner Museum Bonanni compiled in 1709. They will expose large skeletons of vertebrates, including those of a fin whale and a sperm whale. One room is devoted to a collection of tools for microscopy ranging from Leeuwenhoek microscope in modern transmission electron microscopes and scanning.
