cabinet of curiosities

The museum also has a period room with cabinets of curiosities.

Below, a cabinet of curiosities (along with some useful information) about them.

Obviously, cabinets of curiosities were limited to those who could afford to create and maintain them.

These were often displayed in so-called wonder rooms or cabinets of curiosities.

The idea is rather that they are cabinets of curiosities - you visit them one time, and you don't have to come again.

Scientists and collectors displayed their finds in private cabinets of curiosities.

A gentleman's cabinet of curiosities is what these first museum-style rooms were called.

What was in Peter the Great's cabinet of curiosities?

The cabinet of curiosities seems to be having one of those cyclical moments.

He had a cabinet of curiosities and was interested in physics and mathematics.

They give a unique impression of a baroque cabinet of curiosities.

There he assembled a cabinet of curiosities as well as the botanical garden.

Things float inside the jars, like science experiments in a moonshiner's cabinet of curiosities.

The Tradescant collection is the earliest major English cabinet of curiosities.

Other horns were displayed in cabinets of curiosities.

The three peas were however put into the cabinet of curiosities, where they are still to be seen, provided they are not lost.

Cabinets of curiosities would often serve scientific advancement when images of their contents were published.

Not much is known about his cabinet of curiosities and lacquerware cupboard and boxes.

In the eighteenth century, the centre of science might have been the cabinet of curiosities, assembled by the dilettante.

International contemporary art: reinterpreting the historical cabinets of curiosities in our contemporary culture.

The tusks were staples of the cabinet of curiosities.

She also thinks the computer can be a popular gallery without limits for the exploration of art, the ultimate cabinet of curiosities.

This display, animated by minute hand cranks, was inspired by 17th-century cabinets of curiosities.

During the Renaissance people began taking interest in natural objects of beauty to put in cabinets of curiosities.

You needn't buy every inkling or hint to enjoy browsing Teresi's little cabinet of curiosities.