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- noun Alternative form of
Wunderkammer .
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Jessica: I have, for several years, been totally fascinated by the idea of a "wunderkammer," or cabinet of curiosity, which was the name given to the earliest of natural history collections.
Boing Boing 2007
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During the Renaissance, the cabinet of curiosities, or wunderkammer, ...
Ten "Cabinets of Curiosities" and Unique Collections from around the World (PHOTOS) Travis Korte 2010
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During the Renaissance, the "cabinet of curiosities," or wunderkammer, was a style of curation in the spirit of the sublime junk drawer, a display of weird stuff that didn't go anywhere else.
Ten "Cabinets of Curiosities" and Unique Collections from around the World (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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As its name suggests, the Brooklyn-based quarterly magazine Cabinet is a wunderkammer between two covers, a Baedeker for psychogeographers, a random walk through the postmodern baroque.
Boing Boing 2009
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During the Renaissance, the "cabinet of curiosities," or wunderkammer, was a style of curation in the spirit of the sublime junk drawer, a display of weird stuff that didn't go anywhere else.
Ten "Cabinets of Curiosities" and Unique Collections from around the World (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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During the Renaissance, the "cabinet of curiosities," or wunderkammer, was a style of curation in the spirit of the sublime junk drawer, a display of weird stuff that didn't go anywhere else.
Ten "Cabinets of Curiosities" and Unique Collections from around the World (PHOTOS) Travis Korte 2010
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During the Renaissance, the "cabinet of curiosities," or wunderkammer, was a style of curation in the spirit of the sublime junk drawer, a display of weird stuff that didn't go anywhere else.
Ten "Cabinets of Curiosities" and Unique Collections from around the World (PHOTOS) Travis Korte 2010
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My dad was deep piles of stuff: he was a wunderkammer, a cabinet of curiosities filled to bursting, dusty around the edges, the core hard to reach, impenetrable depths but so much fascinating stuff spread across the surface that you could spend a rewarding eternity just exploring his superficialities.
Of Shoes And Ships And Sealing Wax And Hoarding Stuff And Things | Her Bad Mother 2009
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During the Renaissance, the cabinet of curiosities, or wunderkammer, ...
Ten "Cabinets of Curiosities" and Unique Collections from around the World (PHOTOS) Travis Korte 2010
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Forest Bookshop 8 St John Street, Coleford, Gloucestershire GL16 8AR, 01594 833334With its green and cream front and golden signage, this is a veritable wunderkammer.
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April 6, 2008
john commented on the word wunderkammer
"This happens some of the time but not all of the time in “Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities,�? the latest permanent-collection exhibition in the galleries of the Museum of Modern Art’s department of prints and illustrated books. It has been organized by Sarah Suzuki, one of the department’s assistant curators, and is inspired by the Renaissance wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities."
The New York Times, Dusting Off a Museum’s Curio Cabinet, by Roberta Smith, August 21, 2008
August 23, 2008