All Things Strange and Beautiful (Museum Wormianum ), Geological Museum, Copenhagen : 無料・フリー素材/写真
All Things Strange and Beautiful (Museum Wormianum ), Geological Museum, Copenhagen / Jeremy A.A. Knight
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| 説明 | A unicorn's horn, the thigh bone of a giant and a tree root grown around a horse's jaw. All things strange and beautiful is the permanent exhibition at the Geological Museum, showing weird and wonderful objects and the stories which go with them, originally collected in Denmark's very first museum: the 17th century Museum Wormianum. The exhibition is based on the One Room installation, which is the renowned American artist Rosamond Purcell's interpretation of the old museum."With All things strange and beautiful we are presenting original objects from both the Museum Wormianum and The Royal Cabinet of Curiosities, but also lots of wonderful contemporary stories, theories and interpretations linked to the objects. For example, that lemmings are born in the clouds and fall down from the sky, that birds of paradise have no feet and spend their whole lives in the air, or that what we now know as narwhal tusks actually come from unicorns. 'All things strange and beautiful' is thus an exhibition which is not just about things but about people's fascination with and relationship to those things", says Hanne Strager, head of public outreach at the Danish Natural History Museum.The Museum Wormianum was created by the physician Ole Worm in the early years of the 17th century and consisted mainly of a wide-ranging collection of natural specimens: stuffed animals, dried plants and rocks and minerals from all over the world. It wasn't just Denmark's first museum, but one of the first museums anywhere in the world. After Ole Worm's death, his collection passed to the king, Frederik III. He was also a keen collector and was the first Danish king to create a 'Kunstkammer', which was a related phenomenon of the times, but focusing rather more on artistic and ethnographic treasures. So Worm's natural history collection became part of the Royal 'Kunstkammer' or Cabinet of Curiosities.After Worm's death, a book was also published which catalogued and described the objects in his collection. The frontispiece featured a unique and now famous copper-plate engraving of the museum. This illustration inspired American artist Rosamond Purcell to recreate Ole Worm's museum in her One Room installation, which is also part of All things strange and beautiful.Source: geologi.snm.ku.dk/english/exhibitions/all_things_strange_... |
| 撮影日 | 2015-11-17 19:11:26 |
| 撮影者 | Jeremy A.A. Knight |
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| カメラ | Canon EOS 6D |