Saturday, April 24, 2010


•Museums develop from mere catalogs of nature to natural classifications, and museums tended to be specialized.

•There was a great mobility of museums and museums were used for teaching.




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  1. adventurefishApril 25, 2010 at 10:17 PM

    unreadable stuff:
    -Museums develop from mere catalogs of nature to natural classifications, and museums tended to be specialized.
    -There was a great mobility of museums and museums were used for teaching.
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    additional notes:
    - often furnished with works of art, various oddities and rarities, would have showed a person's wealth/collection of knowledge.
    -this depiction in particular shows that the curator person is a midget (a natural oddity himself in a sense, especially during that time)
    -bust of dante, various shells, weapons, rare animals (preserved/stuffed - like the fish on the ceiling), reptiles, horns, feathers of rare birds, vials of rare chemicals, etc.

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