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411: 171: 774: 45: 343: 200:, whose early meetings were often a sort of open floor to any Fellow to exhibit the findings his curiosities led him to. However purely educational or investigative these exhibitions may sound, it is important to note that the Fellows in this period supported the idea of "learned entertainment," or the alignment of learning with entertainment. This was not unusual, as the Royal Society had an earlier history of a love of the marvellous. This love was often exploited by eighteenth-century natural philosophers to secure the attention of their audience during their exhibitions. 737: 816: 880: 257: 572: 209: 1187: 976:(1811–1859) was an early American pioneer of reconstructive plastic surgery. His specialty was repairing congenital anomalies, cleft lip and palates, and club foot. He also collected medical oddities, tumors, anatomical and pathological specimens, wet and dry preparations, wax models, plaster casts, and illustrations of medical deformities. This collection began as a teaching tool for young physicians. Just prior to Mütter's death in 1859, he donated 1,344 items to the 65: 623: 954:, who depicts the Royal Society as "an Assembly of many honorable Gentlemen, who meete inoffensively together under his Majesty's Royal Cognizance; and to entertaine themselves ingenously, whilst their other domestique avocations or publique business deprives them of being always in the company of learned men and that they cannot dwell forever in the Universities." 717:, installed in the former "Kings Library" room in 2003 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the museum, aims to recreate the abundance and diversity that still characterized museums in the mid-eighteenth century, mixing shells, rock samples and botanical specimens with a great variety of artworks and other man-made objects from all over the world. 244:). It serves to authenticate its author's credibility as a source of natural history information, by showing his open bookcases (at the right), in which many volumes are stored lying down and stacked, in the medieval fashion, or with their spines upward, to protect the pages from dust. Some of the volumes doubtless represent his 907:
piece of the True Cross, and a vial of blood that rained in the Isle of Wight). By the 1630s, the Tradescants displayed their eclectic collection at their residence in South Lambeth. Tradescant's Ark, as it came to be known, was the earliest major cabinet of curiosity in England and open to the public for a small entrance fee.
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from Mauritius, the upper jaw of a walrus, and armadillos), artificial curiosities (e.g., wampum belts, portraits, lathe turned ivory, weapons, costumes, Oriental footwear and carved alabaster panels) and rarities (e.g., a mermaid's hand, a dragon's egg, two feathers of a phoenix's tail, a
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offered Sloane a position as personal physician to the West Indies fleet at Jamaica. He accepted and spent fifteen months collecting and cataloguing the native plants, animals, and artificial curiosities (e.g. cultural artifacts of native and enslaved African populations) of Jamaica. This became the
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magazine is a quarterly magazine that juxtaposes apparently unrelated cultural artifacts and phenomena to show their interconnectedness in ways that encourage curiosity about the world. The Italian cultural association Wunderkamern uses the theme of historical cabinets of curiosities to explore how
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and Interregum ." This move to politeness put bars on how one should behave and interact socially, which enabled the distinguishing of the polite from the supposed common or more vulgar members of society. Exhibitions of curiosities (as they were typically odd and foreign marvels) attracted a wide,
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with a range of built-in cabinets whose fronts can be unlocked and let down to reveal intricately fitted nests of pigeonholes forming architectural units, filled with small mineral specimens. Above them, stuffed birds stand against panels inlaid with square polished stone samples, doubtless marbles
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notes, there could be "the princely cabinet, serving a largely representational function, and dominated by aesthetic concerns and a marked predilection for the exotic," or the less grandiose, "the more modest collection of the humanist scholar or virtuoso, which served more practical and scientific
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According to its constitution, "This Club shall be called THE HOBBY CLUB. The object of the Club shall be to encourage the collection of literary, artistic and scientific works; to aid in the development of literary, artistic and scientific matters; to promote social and literary intercourse among
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Sloane acquired approximately three hundred and fifty artificial curiosities from North American Indians, Eskimos, South America, Lapland, Siberia, East Indies, and the West Indies, including nine items from Jamaica. "These ethnological artifacts were important because they established a field of
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By the early decades of the eighteenth century, curiosities and wondrous specimens began to lose their influence among European natural philosophers. As Enlightenment thinkers placed growing emphasis on patterns and systems within nature, anomalies and rarities came to be regarded as potentially
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A subject was considered less suitable for polite discourse if the curiosity being displayed was accompanied by too much other material evidence, as it allowed for less conjecture and exploration of ideas regarding the displayed curiosity. Because of this, many displays simply included a concise
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gave him four volumes of plants from Boerhaave's gardens at Leiden. William Charleton, in a bequest in 1702, gave Sloane numerous books of birds, fish, flowers, and shells and his miscellaneous museum consisting of curiosities, miniatures, insects, medals, animals, minerals, precious stones and
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Fine Art BA programme hosted a show called "Wunder Kammer", the culmination of research and practice from students, which allowed viewers to encounter work from across all disciplines, ranging from intimate installation to thought-provoking video and highly skilled drawing, punctuated by live
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that three types of items were indispensable in forming a "Kunstkammer" or art collection: firstly sculptures and paintings; secondly "curious items from home or abroad"; and thirdly "antlers, horns, claws, feathers and other things belonging to strange and curious animals". When
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Several internet bloggers describe their sites as "wunderkammern" either because they are primarily links to interesting things, or inspire wonder similarly to the original wunderkammern (see External Links, below). Researcher Robert Gehl describes such internet video sites as
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at Prague, was unrivalled north of the Alps; it provided solace and retreat for contemplation that also served to demonstrate his imperial magnificence and power in the symbolic arrangement of their display, ceremoniously presented to visiting diplomats and magnates.
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on five floors in New York, "perpetuating into the 1860s the Wunderkammer tradition of curiosities for gullible, often slow-moving throngs—Barnum's famously sly but effective method of crowd control was to post a sign, 'THIS WAY TO THE EGRESS!' at the exit door".
2289:. Museum in Waco, TX with a Cabinets of Curiosities Room named for John K. Strecker, who was curator for 30 years, the museum was established in 1893 and was the oldest museum in Texas when it closed in 2003 to be incorporated into the Mayborn Museum Complex. 248:. Every surface of the vaulted ceiling is occupied with preserved fishes, stuffed mammals and curious shells, with a stuffed crocodile suspended in the centre. Examples of corals stand on the bookcases. At the left, the room is fitted out like a 439:(1602–1680). These seventeenth-century cabinets were filled with preserved animals, horns, tusks, skeletons, minerals, as well as other interesting man-made objects: sculptures wondrously old, wondrously fine or wondrously small; clockwork 940:
Places of exhibitions of and places of new societies that promoted natural knowledge also seemed to culture the idea of perfect civility. Some scholars propose that this was "a reaction against the dogmatism and enthusiasm of the
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Cabinets of curiosities served not only as collections to reflect the particular interests of their curators but also as social devices to establish and uphold rank in society. There are said to be two main types of cabinets. As
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in Philadelphia, along with a $ 30,000 endowment for the maintenance and expansion of his museum. MĂĽtter's collection was added to ninety-two pathological specimens collected by Doctor Isaac Parrish between 1849 and 1852. The
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purposes." Evans goes on to explain that "no clear distinction existed between the two categories: all collecting was marked by curiosity, shading into credulity, and by some sort of universal underlying design".
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description of the phenomena and avoided any mention of explanation for the phenomena. Quentin Skinner describes the early Royal Society as "something much more like a gentleman's club," an idea supported by
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painting leaning against a flower-piece, coins and medals—presumably Greek and Roman—and Roman terracotta oil-lamps, a Chinese-style brass lock, curious flasks, and a blue-and-white Ming porcelain bowl.
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is presented as a hybrid between an automaton theater and a cabinet of curiosities and contains works representing the field of Patamechanics, an artistic practice and area of study chiefly inspired by
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In addition to cabinets of curiosity serving as an establisher of socioeconomic status for its curator, these cabinets served as entertainment, as particularly illustrated by the proceedings of the
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misleading objects of study. Curiosities, previously interpreted as divine messages and expressions of nature's variety, were increasingly seen as vulgar exceptions to nature's overall uniformity.
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as modern-day wunderkammern, although in danger of being refined into capitalist institutions "just as professionalized curators refined Wunderkammers into the modern museum in the 18th century."
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Some strands of the early universal collections, the bizarre or freakish biological specimens, whether genuine or fake, and the more exotic historical objects, could find a home in commercial
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Sloane meticulously cataloged and created extensive records for most of the specimens and objects in his collection. He also began to acquire other collections by gift or purchase.
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or theater of the world, and a memory theater. The Kunstkammer conveyed symbolically the patron's control of the world through its indoor, microscopic reproduction." Of
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Elias Ashmole (1617–1692): His Autobiographical and Historical Notes, His Correspondence, and Other Contemporary Sources Relating to His Life and Work: Texts, 1661–1672
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were beginning to produce moveable cabinets with similar architectural interior fittings, which could be set upon a carpet-covered table or on a purpose-built stand.
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The Houston Museum of Natural Science houses a hands-on Cabinet of Curiosities, complete with taxidermied crocodile embedded in the ceiling a la Ferrante Imperato's
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Europe, yet to be defined. Although more rudimentary collections had preceded them, the classic cabinets of curiosities emerged in the sixteenth century. The term
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Cabinets of curiosities would often serve scientific advancement when images of their contents were published. The catalog of Worm's collection, published as the
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The Renwick Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution includes a contemporary Cabinet of Curiosity entitled "Bureau of Bureaucracy" by Kim Schmahmann
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Augsburg Cabinet: 3-D model online interactive with high-resolution photography, description of subjects depicted, and mapping of exotic materials
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His whole house and garden is a paradise and Cabinet of rarities and that of the best collection, amongst Medails, books, Plants, natural things.
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that figured just such fitted cabinets with feigned lattice doors and shelves filled with scientific instruments, books and small sculptures in
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with over 4,000 specimens of Carniolan and foreign plants, a smaller number of animal specimens, a natural history and medical library, and an
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and jaspers or fitted with pigeonhole compartments for specimens. Below them, a range of cupboards contain specimen boxes and covered jars.
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Tradescant's Rarities: Essays on the Foundation of the Ashmolean Museum 1683; with a Catalogue of the Surviving Early Collections
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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
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Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology
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The Lure of Antiquity and the Cult of the Machine: The Kunstkammer and the Evolution of Nature, Art and Technology
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History and current items of the Wunderkammer that the Salvador family started in the 17th century in Barcelona.
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The idea of a cabinet of curiosities has also appeared in recent publications and performances. For example,
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in London, began sporadically collecting plants in England and France while studying medicine. In 1687, the
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anachronistically seeks to recreate the sense of wonder that the old cabinets of curiosity once aroused.
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A late example of the juxtaposition of natural materials with richly worked artifice is provided by the "
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came to signify a collection of works of art, which might still also include an assembly of objects of
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Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, "Remarks on the Collections of Rudolf II: The Kunstkammer as a Form of
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thought to be a plant/sheep fabulous creature. However he was also responsible for identifying the
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more general audience, which " them more suitable subjects of polite discourse at the Society."
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Cabinets of curiosities were limited to those who could afford to create and maintain them. Many
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collection for the British Museum that was to increase greatly with the explorations of Captain
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The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe
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The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe
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its members, and the discussion and consideration of various literary and economic subjects."
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gave him plants from North America and the West Indies from an expedition funded by Sloane.
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Cabinets of Curiosity: What they were, why they disappeared, and why they’re so popular now
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Gehl, Robert W. (2009). "Youtube As Archive: Who Will Curate This Digital Wunderkammer?".
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Late in his life Browne parodied the rising trend of collecting curiosities in his tract
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The American writer Lawrence Weschler, wrote an entire book about the museum:
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Two of the most famously described seventeenth-century cabinets were those of
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Thomas, "Charles I of England: The tragedy of Absolutism", A.G. Dickens, ed.
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The cabinet of a collector with paintings, shells, coins, fossils and flowers
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Horst Bredekamp (Allison Brown, translator) (Princeton: Marcus Weiner) 1995.
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creatures. Worm's collection contained, for example, what he thought was a
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gave Sloane thirteen volumes of British plants. In 1716, Sloane purchased
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Collection, Laboratory, Theater. Scenes of Knowledge in the 17th Century
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Strange Blooms: The Curious Lives and Adventures of the John Tradescants
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B. Gutfleish and J. Menzhausen, "How a Kunstkammer Should Be Formed",
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to display his chamber of wonders. The "Enlightenment Gallery" in the
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This is the secretive aspect emphasised by R. J. W. Evans,
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The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History
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Under the Sign: John Bargrave as Collector, Traveler, and Witness
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It appears to represent a reduction of a well-known sculpture by
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Weblog modern equivalent of a Wunderkammer (Anthropology Essay)
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Cabinets for the curious: looking back at early English museums
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in 1636, reveals the range of connoisseurship of a Baroque-era
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of the art cabinet made for Duke August of Brunswick-LĂĽneburg.
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Sixteenth-century cabinet-makers serving the luxury trades of
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The earliest pictorial record of a natural history cabinet is
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Rudolf II and His World: A Study in Intellectual History
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Museum Exhibition:museum exhibition by museum display cases
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In seventeenth-century parlance, both French and English, a
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The John Tradescants: Gardeners to the Rose and Lily Queen
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The juxtaposition of such disparate objects, according to
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in Oceania and Australia and the rapid expansion of the
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Similar collections on a smaller scale were the complex
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Ivins, Jr., William M. "The Tradescant Collection", in
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Italian Baroque-era cabinet of curiosities, circa 1635.
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Image rich German site of Kunstkammer and Wunderkammer
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A history of science website devoted to Wunderkammern
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Annals of the Hobby Club of New York City, 1912–1920
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Many items were bought in Amsterdam from 1736:, (London: Peter Owen, 2006); MacGregor, Arthur. 1710:Museum Masters: Their Museums and Their Influence 1681:Museum Masters: Their Museums and Their Influence 1652:Museum Masters: Their Museums and Their Influence 856:gave him twelve volumes of plants grown from the 532:produced in the early seventeenth century by the 2320: 1962:"The community that wouldn't let its museum die" 1685:Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 1660:Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 1538:Francesaco Fiorani, reviewing Bredecamp 1995 in 1213:, the house and museum of Alex Jordan, known as 913:(1617–1692) was a lawyer, chemist, antiquarian, 791:(1660–1753) an English physician, member of the 607:would find intellectually stimulating. In 1714, 390:in Austria. "The Kunstkammer was regarded as a 2237:Presentation and very large and detailed image 834:Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort (1630–1715) 630:In the second half of the eighteenth century, 1615:"Enlightenment Gallery at the British Museum" 1086:Chamber of Art and Curiosities, Ambras Castle 459:'s tusk as coming from a whale rather than a 346:Celestial globe with clockwork, made for the 285:in 1521, apart from artworks he sent back to 1351:: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( 1336: 957:Cabinets of Curiosities can now be found at 662:, as well as by famous naturalists, such as 94: 1760: 1365: 1298:Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities 163:formed collections that were precursors to 2260:High resolution images of two Wunderkammer 2183:, pictures, full descriptions and history. 1930: 1864:Daston, Lorraine; Park, Katherine (1998). 1863: 1802:"James G. Mundie's Cabinet of Curiosities" 1720: 1718: 1662:, Vol. 10, No. 2 (April 1953), 81–84; and 1576:(in Slovenian and English). 19=70: 23–33. 1260:, curated by artist Bob Frith, founder of 1181: 481:, the first Medici Grand-Duke of Tuscany. 374:, also had a collection, organized by his 123:originally described a room rather than a 1993:International Journal of Cultural Studies 1019:In 1908, New York businessmen formed the 566: 1567: 1561: 1185: 878: 814: 772: 735: 621: 570: 409: 341: 255: 207: 169: 63: 43: 1726:The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 1715: 1341:. Oxford University Press. p. 737. 1190:Modern interpretation of a Wunderkammer 1040:Notable collections started in this way 828:curiosities in amber. 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