Cabinets of curiosities were notable collections of objects. The term cabinet described a room rather than a piece of furniture. Modern terminology would categorize the objects included as belonging to natural history, ethnography, religious or historical relics, works of art, antiquities; the classic cabinet of curiosities emerged in the sixteenth century, although more rudimentary collections had existed earlier. In addition to the most famous and best documented cabinets of rulers and aristocrats, members of the merchant class and early practitioners of science in Europe formed collections that were precursors to museums; the earliest pictorial record of a natural history cabinet is the engraving in Ferrante Imperato's Dell'Historia Naturale. It serves to authenticate its author's credibility as a source of natural history information, in showing his open bookcases at the right, in which many volumes are stored lying down and stacked, in the medieval fashion, or with their spines upward, to protect the pages from dust.

Some of the volumes doubtless represent his herbarium. Every surface of the vaulted ceiling is occupied with preserved fishes, stuffed mammals and curious shells, with a stuffed crocodile suspended in the centre. Examples of corals stand on the bookcases. At the left, the room is fitted out like a studiolo with a range of built-in cabinets whose fronts can be unlocked and let down to reveal intricately fitted nests of pigeonholes forming architectural units, filled with small mineral specimens. Above them, stuffed birds stand against panels inlaid with square polished stone samples, doubtless marbles and jaspers or fitted with pigeonhole compartments for specimens. Below them, a range of cupboards contain covered jars. In 1587 Gabriel Kaltemarckt advised Christian I of Saxony that three types of item were indispensable in forming a "Kunstkammer" or art collection: firstly sculptures and paintings; when Albrecht Dürer visited the Netherlands in 1521, apart from artworks he sent back to Nuremberg various animal horns, a piece of coral, some large fish fins and a wooden weapon from the East Indies.

The characteristic range of interests represented in Frans II Francken's painting of 1636 shows paintings on the wall that range from landscapes, including a moonlit scene—a genre in itself—to a portrait and a religious picture intermixed with preserved tropical marine fish and a string of carved beads, most amber, both precious and a natural curiosity. Sculpture both classical and secular on the one hand and modern and religious are represented, while on the table are ranged, among the exotic shells: portrait miniatures, gem-stones mounted with pearls in a curious quatrefoil box, a set of sepia chiaroscuro woodcuts or drawings, a small still-life painting leaning against a flower-piece and medals—presumably Greek and Roman—and Roman terracotta oil-lamps, a Chinese-style brass lock, curious flasks, a blue-and-white Ming porcelain bowl; the Kunstkammer of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, housed in the Hradschin at Prague, was unrivalled north of the Alps. Rudolf's uncle, Ferdinand II, Archduke of Austria had a collection, with a special emphasis on paintings of people with interesting deformities, which remains intact as the Chamber of Art and Curiosities at Ambras Castle in Austria.

"The Kunstkammer was regarded as a microcosm or theater of the world, a memory theater. The Kunstkammer conveyed symbolically the patron's control of the world through its indoor, microscopic reproduction." Of Charles I of England's collection, Peter Thomas states succinctly, "The Kunstkabinett itself was a form of propaganda.". Two of the most famously described seventeenth-century cabinets were those of Ole Worm, known as Olaus Wormius, Athanasius Kircher; these seventeenth-century cabinets were filled with preserved animals, tusks, minerals, as well as other interesting man-made objects: sculptures wondrously old, wondrously fine or wondrously small. They would contain a mix of fact and fiction, including mythical creatures. Worm's collection contained, for example, what he thought was a Scythian Lamb, a woolly fern thought to be a plant/sheep fabulous creature; however he was responsible for identifying the narwhal's tusk as coming from a whale rather than a unicorn, as most owners of these believed.

The specimens displayed were collected during exploring expeditions and trading voyages. In the second half of the 18th century, Belsazar Hacquet operated in Ljubljana the capital of Carniola, a natural history cabinet, appreciated throughout Europe and was visited by the highest nobility, including the Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph II, the Russian grand duke Paul and Pope Pius VI, as well as by famous naturalists, such as Francesco Griselini and Franz Benedikt Hermann, it included a number of minerals, including speci

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