The exhibition comes at a time when curiosity cabinets are very much in the air.

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

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

The curiosity cabinet is the earliest form of a museum in Western civilization.

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

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.

The natural history museum, in most of these accounts, is said to have evolved out of 16th- and 17th-century "curiosity cabinets."

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