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As the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT explains: "European Cabinets of Art and Curiosity were places of universal learning in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....They were the museums of their time, offering visitors first-hand knowledge of…

Floor plan to the influential art museum in Boston, MA shows not simply a series of galleries but an historical sequence that is displayed walking through the rooms. As Logan Ward suggests, visitors following a counter-clockwise route enact the…

The American Museum of Natural History became famous, and then eventually infamous, for its gallery design combining natural history and anthropology. Rooms and carefully crafted dioramas showed taxidermied animals in their native habitats; so too…

Publicity photo shows a child pointing at the skeleton of a brontosaurus. Visible in the background is a painted diorama to enhance the scene.