Terhi Tolvanen: Curiosity Collection Collecting appears to be one of mankind’s irrepressible urges. Hundreds of years ago it manifested itself in Italian ‘Studioli’, German ‘Wunderkammer’, and Dutch ‘Cabinets of curiosities’. In these rooms inquisitiveness and astonishment merged with beauty, religion and superstition. In the Museum Boerhaave, in the Dutch city of Leiden, you can still [...]
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