+ - Virtual Laptop Reality Reveals Cabinets of Wonder->
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Yergle143 writes "A Cabinet of Curiosities (or Kabinettshrank or Wunderkabinett) is a Renaissance phenom characterized as a collection of objects gathered up and displayed in elaborately carved wooden cabinets. Progenitors to the modern Museum, the Cabinets served as an attempt to systematize the natural, artistic, historical and religious world; juxtaposing collections of the real and the unreal (a narwhal's tusk, shells, minerals, a saint's fingernail). The results, to the modern eye, are generally strange but the deliberate assembly and creation make them fascinating to behold. Los Angeles is the home of the Museum of Jurassic Technology, an attempt to faithfully recreate the wild sensibility of diorama http://www.mjt.org/. Now the Getty Museum is offering a high tech 3D way to interact with a delicate example of a Kabinettschrank. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/05/getty-museum-lets-you-take-a-look-inside-its-cabinet-of-treasures-virtually-that-is.html"
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