| ALOYSEUM
The
St. Aloysius Museum. |
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| ORIGIN
and DEVELOPMENT |
| 1912:
Fr. Chiappi brought the Minerals
from Italy, the Herbarium, the Collection of Roman coins,
the collection of commemorative medals and a part of the coins.
All these were gift from the Collegio Vieta, Italy. All these
were put in show cases and placed on the verandah of the Physics
Lab., and a small part of it was kept in Chemistry lab. |
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|  1912:
Fr. Proserpio, the Rector, extended the College Dept.
and provided a hall for the Museum.
Fr.
F. Airoldi,
the minister of the House, for want of space in the new museum,
reduced five show cases into 10 wall almirhas and placed the
minerals and rocks. The fossils remained in the old show case.
Fr.
Rondano
continued his work and placed the old Roman coins and commemorative
medals in the big almirhas; carefully and most patiently classified
many of the old coins and even improved the museum by adding
many specimens, different kinds of skeletons of animals, a
great variety of sea shells, and many natural science specimens.
This he did till he left the college |
| 1944:
Fr. Joseph Coelho, Rector, to
enlarge the Students' Library , shifted the Museum to the
Chettur's bungalow in the newly acquired property. The Museum
was carefully shifted and well arranged there till 1949. In
1949 it was shifted to the spacious former English Hall and
here too the museum was good. |
| 1950:
Fr. Jacques, for want of class
rooms, scattered the Museum for the first time. Many specimens
were lost due to haste. |
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|  1955:
In May 1955, Fr. A. Saldanha,
Rector got the museum rearranged in the New Extension and
immediately added to it the 2 beautiful life size statues
of Ghandiji and Nehru- workmanship of Messers Simon &
Co., Mangalore. The Museum was reopened to the Public on 27
Dec. 1955.
1956:
De Dion car was presented by P.
F. X. Saldanha
1995:
In Nov. 1995 The Museum was once  again
opened to the public. The renovation work was done by Prof.
Gilbert Sequeira, HOD of the History Dept. He slogged
for more than 2 months to put order to the Museum. The renovation
of the Museum was initiated by Fr. Prashanth
Madtha, the Principal of the College. |
|  2000:
The Museum has been shifted to the Red Building of the High
School. The new location was blessed by Fr.
Ralph da Costa, s.j., the Rector of the college, and
was inaugurated by Prof. Gilbert Sequeira,
the HOD of History Dept. on 24th Feb. 2000. He himself was
responsible in arranging the museum at the new location.
A
few of the fascinating exhibits are shown below :
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Here you
see the first generator which was used in the city of Mangalore.
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| The collection
of vessels used by Mangaloreans in the past |
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Wooden
utensils used to draw water from streams and wells |
| This is
one of the pulpits used in olden Churches. |
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