Geoscientific school heritage: from the past to the future

A considerable amount of literature has been published on school-museum partnerships. However, relatively few studies investigate school museums, particularly natural history school collections. This work presents the recovery, study, cataloging, and valorization of the 18th-century geo-mineralogical collections belonging to the Mineralogical Cabinet of the Collegio Nazareno (Crocetti et al., 1997), one of the most important Roman institutions for the study and learning of physical and natural sciences in the modern era. The collection is now housed at the Istituto San Giuseppe Calasanzio (Roma).