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The Wunderkammer

From the second half of the 16th century, and up to more or less the beginning of the 19th, a phenomenon had been quite popular among the nobles families all over Europe: the Wunderkammer.

Although this name, literally translated from German, means “room of wonders“, initially it was a wooden cabinet, of which dimensions could vary, where not only precious relics were stored, but also historical and cultural finds. and naturalistic, as prototypes of new inventions, ancient coins, stuffed animals and fossil finds.

In short, a real “cabinet of curiosities” (the richest even had an entire room) made available to guests, and, on certain days of the year, also to visitors from all walks of life, which marked the first step towards the establishment of museums as we know them today.

This is exactly what I’m trying to do with this website: a “virtual” cabinet of curiosities.

By the way, Inox Bim has a complete range of locker and storage cabinets. Real, not virtual ones.

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