Wunderkammer - Finestre sull'Arte

Between Wunderkammer and science: the Museum of Natural History from the Charterhouse of Calci

In the flourishing Val Graziosa, at the foot of Monte Pisano, the monumental and ebony Certosa di Calci stands out against the green meadows and woods. It is an articulated monastic complex that from the mid-14th century until the 1970s kept its func...
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Florence's Specola reopens after lengthy redevelopment with new exhibition rooms

After a lengthy redevelopment financed by the University of Florence and the Region of Tuscany, the La Specola Museum of Natural History, part of the Museum System of the Florentine Athenaeum, reopened to the public on Feb. 22 in Florence. Visitors w...
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The Wunderkammer of the Ducal Palace in Mantua reopens to the public

The Wunderkammer section of the Ducal Palace in Mantua will reopen to visitors on Tuesday, March 14. About a year ago the Ducal Palace, at the Galleria delle Metamorfosi, inaugurated an exhibition entitled Naturalia e Mirabilia. Science at the Court...
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Reopens Castello della Monica, neo-Gothic-style residence in south-central Italy

The Della Monica Castle in Teramo reopens with the exhibition La Camera delle meraviglie, which can be visited from January 21 to May 7, 2023, curated by Stefano Papetti and Antonio D'Amico. The exhibition, the first set up inside the Della Monica Ca...
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What would the Wunderkammer of a 17th-century collector living today look like? The Civic Museums of Pavia recreate it.

In the Collector's Room of the Visconti Castle in Pavia, the exhibition Mnemosyne opened on October 2022 and will be open until April 25, 2023. The Theater of Memory, curated by Paolo Linetti. What would a seventeenth-century collector's wunderkammer...
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