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Cabinet of Curiosities
A cabinet of curiosities was, during the Renaissance, an extensive collection of objects considered surprising for their novelty or of interest in some other way. It was a cabinet in the old sense of a room with restricted access, not in the modern sense (as in "kitchen cabinet").
Typically, the items on display were preserved organisms, or parts of organisms, including fossils, various minerals, and human productions, particularly the products of foreign cultures, as well as art and antiquities. Cabinets of curiosity were also known as wonder-rooms, Wunderkammern, or Kunstkammern. They were the precursors of modern museums. One of the earliest and most impressive cabinets was assembled in the sixteenth century by the Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi.
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