Victorian Curiosities

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  • 11 Wonderful Wunderkammer, or Curiosity Cabinets
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  • The Victorian Cabinet of Curiosities
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    • 11 Wonderful Wunderkammer, or Curiosity Cabinets

    We will be looking for a new space but please follow our social media to see where we are in terms of pop up shops, fairs, car boots and of course you can still shop right here online.. The museum and Kickstarter supporters are still a priority, we will meet all incentives as soon as we are able. Photos of our work and shop. I just found this gorgeous necklace while packing final bits of the shop.

    This is made from a piece of irreparably damaged antique human skull, from a former medical skeleton. I am able to post today if anyone would like it. A variety of lovely items we are arranging for a prop hire. Love to play with the museum pieces!

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    Wonderful night last night at theartfuldodgeryork! Thanks for having us! Come see the weird, buy the strange while having a drink in one of our favourite haunts! Tomorrow we will begin actually taking things down, still possible to arrange for picking up specific items in the day time, just not suitable for browsing anymore. Unlike other cabinets of curiosity, anyone could tour it, not just aristocracy or friends of the family.

    All were welcome, assuming you could afford the 6p entry fee! Though the elder John amassed a small fortune as a master gardener for royalty across Europe, the collection also included many priceless objects donated by society elites.

    Ashmole eventually took over the collection, and it formed the basis of the eponymous Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology at Oxford University. Though the museum no longer bears their name, the Tradescants are still honored in the name of the Tradescantia genus of flowering spiderworts.

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    Classic Books and Ephemera. Despite being brought up in a family that discouraged education for girls, Lady Charlotte Guest found her own way to learn a half-dozen languages, and knew the mythology and history of cultures around the world, by the time she married at Her passion for learning and languages meant that she would eventually become best known for translating English books to Welsh, and publishing a collection of traditional Welsh folk tales in English, entitled Mabinogion. However, her pursuits spanned far beyond the world of language.

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    Her love of history and her upper-class upbringing stirred a fascination with ceramics and china from a young age. She and her second husband travelled far and wide within Europe to collect some of the oldest and rarest ceramics and chinaware. Their huge collection was considered an honor to be shown while Schreiber lived, as he was a notable Dorset elite, and MP for Poole.

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    After his death in , Lady Guest made the collection public, viewable for free. When she, too, passed away, she bequeathed the ceramics and china to the Victoria and Albert Museum. During her lifetime, she also amassed a large collection of board games, cards, and fans in her travels, which she donated to the British Museum. Just like many university students, Johann Hermann started on one path, but ended up going somewhere completely different.

    Though initially studying philosophy, mathematics, and literature, Hermann eventually turned toward botany and medicine, receiving his M. Despite being a physician—and soon a Professor of Medicine at Strasbourg—he never stopped collecting specimens for his personal natural history cabinet, or cataloging the natural history around his region.

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    He was soon made curator of the Botanical Gardens at the University of Strasbourg, and would head weekly natural history excursions into Alsace and Vosges. During the French Revolution, Hermann was transferred to the School of Medicine at Strasbourg, and despite attempted suppression by the revolutionaries, he continued to maintain his collection, take students on cataloging excursions, and tend to the gardens at the University. Due to losing public and school funding for these projects, he put all of his own energy and wealth into them.

    His zoological and botanical collections formed the basis of the Zoological Museum of Strasbourg, and the gardens at the University of Strasbourg are still open to the public. Another physician who preferred the natural history world over medicine, Robert Edmond Grant collected one of the largest Cabinets of invertebrates in England during the first half of his life.

    He later used his practice in dissection to teach Charles Darwin how to dissect marine invertebrates under a microscope, in their natural habitat. Though the two later had a falling-out over research domains, Darwin continued to use the methods and habits that Grant had taught him, as he came to his eventual conclusions on evolution. Unsurprisingly, these products caused extreme sickness and lead to many fatalities before people understood the true power of the substance.

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    Curious Collections Many Victorians would specialise in collecting objects, from zoological and botanical to geological and archaeological. People devoted cabinets and spaces for their prized collections, which would often take up entire rooms in their home. During the era many towns and villages had a curiosity shop which sold an array of weird and wonderful objects to avid collectors. But did you know, Victoria disliked black funerals and at her own funeral in , ensured the streets of London were decorated in purple and white.

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    Cabinets full of curiosities were especially popular among collectors in the Victorian era to display trophies from travel and gifts from faraway. However, just as our curiosity encounters a certain lack of control as we proceed to surf the web ad infinitum the Victorian's similarly associated.

    Many historians believe this was down to the parallels that could be drawn from their relationships with death. This obsession led to an unusual phenomenon whereby experts would unwrap mummies for an auditorium of curious men and women. One of these innovations was the concept of the postage stamp, which first became available for purchase on 1 May