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How to create your own museum of the bizarre and the beautiful.

Your Own Wunderkammer

BY HEATHER McDOUGAL

image THE WUNDERKAMMER (CHAMBER OF wonders), in its original 16th- and 17th-century incarnation, was a way of housing and displaying collections of natural oddities or curios in a room — usually in the home of someone with wealth or influence, or that of a scholar. The chamber was arranged according to similarities or other groupings, on the whim of the collector.

Collectors then, just like today, were competitive, and tried to gather ...

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