Wunderkammer

See also: wunderkammer

English

Etymology

From German Wunderkammer (“room of wonders”).

Noun

Wunderkammer (plural Wunderkammers or Wunderkammern)

  1. A cabinet of scientific curiosities, especially during the Renaissance.
    • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 207:
      Despite the frequent bric-à-brac dimension to such collections, these theatres of nature invited an appreciation of nature rather different from the Renaissance Wunderkammer which had preceded them.
    • 2007 November 4, Carol Kino, “Boldly, Where No Dog Had Gone Before”, in New York Times‎:
      Tucked into a small storefront on Venice Boulevard, the museum has been called a modern-day wunderkammer and is the subject of a 1995 book, Mr. Wilsons Cabinet of Wonders (Pantheon), by Lawrence Weschler.
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