{"id":3725,"date":"2020-07-31T15:39:49","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T13:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.beniculturali.it\/?post_type=sede&#038;p=3725"},"modified":"2020-09-21T14:47:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T12:47:57","slug":"the-collections-from-the-former-kircherian-museum","status":"publish","type":"sede","link":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/palazzo-massimo\/the-coin-and-medal-collection-of-the-national-museum-of-rome\/the-collections-from-the-former-kircherian-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"The Collections from the former Kircherian Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Created in the 17th century by <strong>Alfonso Donnino from Toscanella<\/strong>, who left his own collection of antiquities to the Roman College of the Society of Jesus, the <strong>Kircherian Museum<\/strong> owes the bulk of its pieces to its first curator, the Jesuit Father <strong>Athanasius Kirche<\/strong>r. After various ups and downs, primarily associated with the fates of the Jesuit Order, a Ministerial Order enacted in 1913 authorised the division of its collections among new more suitable museum sites. A considerable quantity of material was thus transferred to the Coin and Medal Collection in the National Roman Museum, including the <strong>aes grave<\/strong> (heavy bronze) collection, part of the collections of medals and a large quantity of coins and votive objects (including the famous <strong>Vicarello Cups<\/strong>) taken from the Vicarello deposit (Rome).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Created in the 17th century by Alfonso Donnino from Toscanella, who left his own collection of antiquities to the Roman&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":19329,"parent":3721,"menu_order":42,"template":"","class_list":["post-3725","sede","type-sede","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sede\/3725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sede"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sede"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sede\/3721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museonazionaleromano.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}