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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bosko69, post: 9487889, member: 16283&quot;]We saw The Treasures of Dresden show at The De Young Museum in S.F. in 1980.They displayed sections of the cabinet of curiosities of established by Augustus,Elector of Saxony in 1560.</p><p>The Germans have some wonderful words for these collections- Kunstkammer<i>,</i>Kunstkabinett<i>,</i>Wunderkammer (also undoubtedly some great Dutch terms that AJ &amp; Kyra know).</p><p>The Ashmolean Museum,Boerhaave,British Museum,Pitt Rivers &amp; Teylers all started this way.</p><p>The most amazing Cabinet I visited as a child was inside Adolph Sutro&#039;s huge public bath&#039;s in San Francisco.It contained actual Egyptian mummies,Tom Thumb&#039;s Carriage &amp; a large moving matchstick carnival built by convicts at Alcatraz.It also had Fiji Mermaids &amp; other antique sideshow gaffes.</p><p>For a 10 year old-it was mesmerizing,it opened my mind.[ATTACH=full]445227[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Massimo-Listri-Cabinet-Curiosities-40th/dp/3836593785" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.amazon.com/Massimo-Listri-Cabinet-Curiosities-40th/dp/3836593785" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Massimo-Listri-Cabinet-Curiosities-40th/dp/3836593785</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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