Kircherian Museum

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The Kircherian Museum was an antiquities and curiousities collection, set up in 1651 by the jesuit Athanasius Kircher at the Roman College.

A catalogue of this collection was published in 1678 by a not better known Giorgio de Sepi, with the supervision of Kircher himself: the title of the catalogue was Romani Collegii Societatis Jesu Musaeum Celeberrimum and its fully readable on GATE at this link (with full-text search available).

After Kircher death (1681), the curation of the museum wasn't assigned to anyone and this caused a slightly decline and dispersion of the collection. At the beginning of the 18th century another jesuit, Filippo Bonanni, started to take care again of the museum, rearranging the pieces and enlarging the collection that was newly described in the Musaeum Kircherianum, a work by Bonanni printed in 1709.

Later, about in 1716, Bonanni also wrote a report to his superiors where he described all the actions taken in the last two decades to save and reorganize the museum: the goal of the report was to obtain an annual income for the museum to avoid its decline as happened after Kircher death. The transcription of the report, entitled Notizie circa la Galleria del Collegio Romano is also available on GATE at this link.


More information about the Kircherian Museum can be discovered looking at the Bibliographia Kircheriana, where Kircherian Museum is a keyword assigned to the following entries:

Entry IDAuthorTitleYearLanguageBibliographic level
AHSI 104 727Rivosecchi, ValerioEsotismo in Roma barocca. Studi sul Padre Kircher1982itaMonography
AKC Bibliography 0010Findlen, PaulaPossessing nature : Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy1994engMonography
AKC Bibliography 0024Garrucci, RaffaeleOrigini e vicende del Museo Kircheriano dal 1651 al 17731879itaPaper in journal
AKC Bibliography 0030Secchi, Giampietro (S.I.)Campione d'antica bilibra romana in piombo conservato nel Museo Kircheriano: con greca inscrizione inedita1835itaMonography
AKC Bibliography 0032Marchi, GiuseppeLa cista atletica del Museo Kircheriano1848itaMonography
AKC Bibliography 0035De Ruggiero, EttoreGuida del Museo Kircheriano1879itaMonography
AKC Bibliography 0037Marchi, Giuseppe
Tessieri, Pietro
L'aes grave del Museo Kircheriano, ovvero, Le monete primitive dei popoli dell'Italia media, ordinate e descritte, aggiuntovi un ragionamento per tentarne l'illustrazione1839itaMonography
AKC Bibliography 0049Findlen, PaulaScientific spectacle in Baroque Rome: Athanasius Kircher and the Roman College Museum2003engBook chapter
AKC Bibliography 0053Westerhoff, Jan C.A World of Signs: Baroque Pansemioticism, the Polyhistor and the Early Modern Wunderkammer2001engPaper in journal
AKC Bibliography 0062Leinkauf, ThomasMundus combinatus und ars combinatoria als geistesgeschichtlicher Hintergrund des Museum Kircherianum in Rom1994gerBook chapter
AKC Bibliography 0067Seipel, Wilfried (ed.)Ägyptomanie. Europäische Ägypten Imagination von der Antike bis heute. Schriften des Kunsthistorischen Museums Vol. 3 - Symposium Wien, Kunsthistorisches Museum, 30. und 31. Oktober 19942000gerConference proceedings
AKC Bibliography 0068Gilly, CarlosErmetismo per turisti, ovvero come fare di Ermete un pezzo da museo: Athanasius Kircher2002ita
eng
Exhibition catalogue contribution
AKC Bibliography 0069Avellino, Francesco MariaDell'aes grave del Museo kircheriano: articoli due1839itaMonography
AKC Bibliography 0070Bartola, AlbertoAlle origini del Museo del Collegio Romano: documenti e testimonianze2004itaPaper in journal
AKC Bibliography 0072Asmussen, Tina
Burkart, Lucas
Rößler, Hole
Schleier des Wissens. Athanasius Kirchers Strategien der Sichtbarmachung in Stadt, Museum und Buch2011gerPaper in journal
AKC Bibliography 0082Lafaye, G.Le Musée Kircher1879frePaper in journal
AKC Bibliography 0088Battarra, Giovanni AntonioRerum naturalium historia nempe quadrupedum insectorum piscium variorumque marinorum corporum fossilium plantarum exoticarum ac præsertim testaceorum existentium in Museo Kircheriano edita iam a P. Philippo Bonannio nunc vero nova methodo distributa notis illustrata in tabulis reformata novisque observationibus locupletata a Iohanne Antonio Battarra Ariminensi1773-1782latPrinted (pre-1830)
AKC Bibliography 0093Contucci, ContuccioMusaei Kircheriani aerea notis illustrata1763-1765latPrinted (pre-1830)
AKC Bibliography 0100De Ruggiero, EttoreCatalogo del Museo Kircheriano1878itaMonography
AKC Bibliography 0106Findlen, Paula,Science, History, and Erudition: Athanasius Kircher's museum et the Collegio Romano2001engExhibition catalogue contribution
AKC Bibliography 0113Mayer-Deutsch, AngelaDas Musaeum Kircherianum. Kontemplative Momente, historische Rekonstruktion, Bildrhetorik2010gerMonography
AKC Bibliography 0397Hunter, MichaelJohn Ray in Italy: lost manuscripts rediscovered2014engPaper in journal
AKC Bibliography 0399Baronio
Ciaconio, Alfonso
Bosio, D’Antonio
Panciroli, Ottavio.
Descrizione di Roma moderna, formata nuovamente ...1697itaPrinted (pre-1830)
AKC Bibliography 0400 Nota delli Musei, Librerie, Galerie & ornamenti di Statue, e Pitture, ne’ Palazzi, nelle Case, e ne’ Giardini di Roma 1664itaPrinted (pre-1830)
AKC Bibliography 0401Evelyn, JohnThe diary of John Evelyn1901eng
AKC Bibliography 0402Misson, MaximilianNouveau voyage d'Italie, avec un memoire contenant des avis utiles a ceux qui voudront faire le mesme voyage1702frePrinted (pre-1830)
AKC Bibliography 0403Piazza, Carlo BartolomeoEusebologion. Euseuologio romano, ouero Delle opere pie di Roma, accresciuto, & ampliato secondo lo stato presente. Con due trattati delle accademie, e librerie celebri di Roma ... 1698itaPrinted (pre-1830)
AKC Bibliography 0404Priorat, Galeazzo Gualdo Historia della sacra real maestà di Christina Alessandra regina di Suetia, &c 1656itaPrinted (pre-1830)
AKC Bibliography 0405Spon, Jacob
Wheler, George
Voyage d'Italie, de Dalmatie, de Grece et du Levant fait aux annies 1675 & 1676 ...1678frePrinted (pre-1830)
AKC Bibliography 0406Mochizuki, Mia M.Connected Worlds—The World, the Worldly, and the Otherworldly: An Introduction 2018engBook chapter
AKC Bibliography 0415Vaz de Carvalho, CarolinaOBJETOS BRASILEIROS NA COLEÇÃO DO COLLEGIUM ROMANUM JESUÍTA, 1678 – INTERSEÇÕES ENTRE AÇÕES MISSIONÁRIAS E PRÁTICAS COLECIONISTAS DA ALTA IDADE MODERNA2018porBook chapter
AKC Bibliography 0416Vaz de Carvalho, CarolinaENTRE ROMA E NOVA ESPANHA: AS TROCAS EPISTOLARES DE ATHANASIUS KIRCHER E ALEXANDRO FAVIÁN, 1661-16742019porPaper in conference proceedings
AKC Bibliography 0417Rößler, Hole
Asmussen, Tina
Schmidt-Biggemann, Wilhelm
Burkart, Lucas
Breidbach, Olaf
Böhling, Frank
Eusterschulte, Anne
Hauptwerke. Band 11: Musaeum Celeberrimum (ed. Georgius de Sepibus). - Vita Patris Athanasii Kircheri.2019ger
lat
Monography