Of Kunst and Wunderkammer

The famous engraving from the frontispiece of Ole Worm’s book Museum Wormianum, published in 1655. Ole Worm’s collections, combined with the Royal Cabinet go Curiosities of Frederik III, formed the basis of what would later become the Natural History Museum of Denmark. [source]

"Ultimately, the Wunderkammer is about control. Pioneered during the 16th-century rise of the natural sciences, the cabinets perhaps unconsciously served as a way to manage the potential anxiety at finding ourselves in a world ruled by science rather than God.

Both are powerful indicators of the collateral damage associated with the desire to explore and possess the world." [source]