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
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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