The collection of the famous Jesuit scholar/scientist, once kept in the Collegio Romano, was dissolved after the unification of Italy (1870). The Etruscan objects ended in the Villa Giulia, the Roman objects in the National Museum. The Egyptian finds are still in the Collegio Romano.
Rome, Museo Athanasius Kircher
Relevant museums
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Ara Pacis Museum
Ara Pacis Museum -
Rome, Vatican Museums
Rome, Vatican Museums -
Rome, Museo nazionale della civiltà romana
Rome, Museo nazionale della civiltà romana - Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography. -
Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Collection of ancient manuscripts, including papyri, ostraca, and the Peutinger Map -
Paris, Louvre
Paris, Louvre -
Prefectural Museum of Antiquities (Rouen)
Prefectural Museum of Antiquities (Rouen)
Nearby sites
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Marble Foot of via di S. Stefano del Cacco
Marble Foot of via di S. Stefano del Cacco This marble foot, more than one meter long, of which the Romans are particularly fond, gave its name to the street. It is what remains of a colossal Roman statue that must have been eight meters high. -
Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense
Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense -
Temple of Isis
Temple of Isis -
Arcus Novus
Triumphal Arch bulid by Diocletian.
