Their lovingly displayed collections of curious details, odd coincidences and quirks of behavior are signs of integrity, and also assertions of individuality.
He was struck by the paradox of the displayed collections chronicling cultures that have been destroyed, leaving a strange hybrid of preservation and destruction.
With the renovations, the approach to displaying collections is changing radically.
Other museums display collections on artillery, automobiles, mountains, cinema, and natural history, zoology, paleontology, and mineralogy.
Another inspiration for her image: Wunderkammern, the cabinets of curiosities created in the Renaissance to display collections of extraordinary objects.
The windows display collections of both black-and-white and color pictures of the wall, and some display color slides as well.
The Turks and Caicos National Museum, located on Grand Turk, displays collections on a variety of historical subjects, sponsors research projects in areas such as the slave trade and island industries, and maintains an archive of historical documents and images.
It was reminiscent of the "cabinet of curiosities" style of displaying collections popular in Darwin's time, stuffed full of many different species in no particular arrangement.
