Kunstkammers and museums

Abstract

The value and importance of the exhibition 'Museum Europa' and the accompanying collection of essays published in 'Den Jyske Historiker' lies in the fact that they look at the museum in a new way. Points have been raised which will be fruitful in the discussion of the idea of the museum and its role in the past as well as in the future. Many of the contributors to the essay collection come from fields contiguous to those of the normal museum employee. This introduces new discussions and also a new language, not always, I must confess, easy to read, but always interesting. This paper will try to examine one aspect of this discussion, namely the role of the Kunstkammer, and the way the Kunstkammer has been treated, or rather overlooked as a museum.

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