Oliver Impey, Arthur MacGregor
The Origins of Museums
The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Europe

The Origins of Museums The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Europe

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A comprehensive account of an extraordinary phenomenon which developed in 16th- and 17th-century Europe - the cabinet of curiosities or Wunderkammer - in which are to be found the beginnings of museums as we know them. Cabinets reflected all the intellectual curiosity of the age.

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