Aloyseum is a museum on the St Aloysius College campus in

Mangaluru Mangaluru (), formerly called Mangalore ( ), is a major industrial port city in the Indian state of Karnataka and on the west coast of India. It is located between the Laccadive Sea and the Western Ghats about west of Bengaluru, the stat ...

city of

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. It was established in the year 1913.

History

This museum began in 1913 when an Italian Jesuit priest named Chiapi donated around 2000 different types of minerals,

Herbarium A herbarium (plural: herbaria) is a collection of preserved plant biological specimen, specimens and associated data used for scientific study. The specimens may be whole plants or plant parts; these will usually be in dried form mounted on a sh ...

and a collection of Roman coins. In 1906, the De Dion car was the first automobile that was used in Mangaluru. It was imported to Mangalore by P F X Saldanha of the

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Coffee Works. This car is one of the souvenirs present in this museum. The museum also has a collection of domestic and agricultural utensils used by the ancient generation.

Exhibition galleries

This museum contains artifacts such as stone age tools, postal stamps,

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, pieces of the

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, drawings of

Antonio Moscheni Antonio Moscheni ( Stezzano, 16 January 1854 – Kochi, 15 November 1905) was a Jesuit brother and painter, known best for his elaborate fresco decoration of the church of St. Aloysius College, Mangalore, India. Biography Moscheni was born in ...

, paintings of European artists, spears and arrows of

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Neolithic The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Ancient Greek, Greek 'new' and 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Mesopotamia, Asia, Europe and Africa (c. 10,000 BCE to c. 2,000 BCE). It saw the Neolithic Revo ...

stone axe, telegraphic equipment, Mangalore's first car and generator, whale skeleton, old musical instruments, etc.

References

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