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2 unusual facts about Cabinet of curiosities


Cabinet of curiosities

The fabulous Habsburg Imperial collection, included important Aztec artifacts, including the feather head-dress or crown of Montezuma now in the Museum of Ethnology, Vienna.

Utz Rothe

Entering into his workspace, one finds chaos,leaving barely a centimeter uncovered, the room is filled with finished and unfinished works of art, objects and muddle as if approaching an overflowing 'Wunderkammer'.


Jean-Baptiste Bécœur

The huge collection of Bécoeur was purchased by the Duke of Zweibrücken for the cabinet of curiosities of the Château de Karlsberg, destroyed after the Siege of Mainz in 1793.


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Ra-Ra Zoo

Ra-Ra Zoo's last full show to date 'Cabinet of Curiosities' toured in 1993/4 and like their first show was in the London International Mime Festival (in 1994), the last show of that tour was at the Liverpool Everyman also in 1994.