Museo di Anatomia Comparata "Giovanni Battista Grassi"

Description

Like other scientific museums of the University of Rome, the "Battista Grassi" Museum of Comparative Anatomy draws its origins from the Museum of Mineralogy and Historia Naturalis which in 1805, during the Pontificate of Pius VII, was set up in the Achiginnasio of "La Sapienza" University. Many of the pieces on display are recorded in the manuscript catalog dating back to around 1850, preserved in the State Archives. Other objects are even older: they derive from the celebrated collection that the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher organized around the first half of the seventeenth century at the Roman College and which was dismembered following the confiscation of ecclesial assets following the capture of Rome. Their belonging to the Kircherian collection can be documented through the description in the catalogs of the Kircherian Museum that Bonanni compiled in 1709. Large skeletons of vertebrates are exhibited there, including those of a fin whale and a sperm whale. One room is reserved for a collection of microscopy instruments ranging from the Leeuwenhoek microscope to modern transmission and scanning electron microscopes.

Contacts

TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Riccardo Castiglia
email: riccardo.castiglia@uniroma1.it

POINT_OF_CONTACT
Riccardo Castiglia
email: riccardo.castiglia@uniroma1.it

Museo di Anatomia Comparata "Giovanni Battista Grassi"
via Alfonso Borelli, 50
Roma
00161
RM
IT
email: riccardo.castiglia@uniroma1.it