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Cabinets of curiosities, also known as wonder-rooms (German: Wunderkammer) were encyclopedic collections of objects whose categorical boundaries were, in Renaissance Europe, yet to be defined. Although more rudimentary collections had preceded them, the classic cabinets of curiosities emerged in the sixteenth century. The term cabinet originally described a room rather than a piece of furniture. Modern terminology would categorize the objects included as belonging to natural history (sometimes faked), geology, ethnography, archaeology, religious or historical relics, works of art (including cabinet paintings), and antiquities. In addition to the most famous and best documented cabinets of rulers and aristocrats, members of the merchant class and early practitioners of science in Europe formed collections that were precursors to museums.

 

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Wunderkammer display at the cryptid taxidermy museum in bogomil's weirdville town , a collection of worldwide curiosities, oil painting in the style of Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Brueghel and the Northern Renaissance.

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Uploaded on August 10, 2025