Cabinets of curiosities, or ‘Wunderkammer,’ Cabinets of Wonder, were those rooms filled with encyclopedic collections of objects of natural history, geology, antiques, and archaeology, developed in Renaissance Europe, when they came to symbolize their patrons’ control over the world, through owning its microscopic reproduction.
Maria Pergay’s Wunderkammer
Cabinets of curiosities, or ‘Wunderkammer,’ Cabinets of Wonder, were those rooms filled with encyclopedic collections of objects of natural history, geology, antiques, and archaeology, developed in Renaissance Europe, when they came to symbolize their patrons’ control over the world, through owning its microscopic reproduction.