Typology:
Private Museum, Religious Museum
Address
Address:
Lungotevere Prati, 12
Zone:
Rione Prati (Roma centro)
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Contacts
Telephone:
0039 06 68806517
Fax:
0039 06 6865261
Opening times
Every day 7.30am-11am and 4.30pm-7pm
Description
This museum is called Small Museum of the Souls of Purgatory. Around 1897 the French missionary Victor Janet started collecting objects (clothes, fabrics, frocks, skullcaps, breviaries, bibles, nightshirts, small wooden boards, etc.) that were considered to be"branded" by the hands of the dead to prove the afterlife to their living relatives. All the material kept in showcases is exhibited to the publicin a room adjacent to the church of the Sacro Cuore del Suffragio, peculiar example of neo-Gothic construction in 1890 on Lungotevere Prati.
Connections: Bus 70 - 81 - 87 - 186 - 492 - 628 - 913 - 926
Keywords
See also
Culture and leisure › Historic places of worship › Catholic Churches
Last checked:
2011-12-27 14:04