WONDERTARIUM

NaturMaschine  Wundarkammern

“Wundarkammern; cabinets of curiousities, which prolifierated in the 16th and 17th centuries. These were usually collections of natural history specimens—-skeletons, stuffed animals, fetuses. Sometimes they were ethnographical artifacts, brought from distant lands.  Gathered magpie fashion, these cabinets were eclectic, unsystematic and sometimes a bit gruesome.”

“wonder is not an alternative to scholarly inquiry but its very essence; it is the desire to investigate the world and understand it