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  • Next month will be a Gothic sort of thing called The Kunstkammer of Dr. Ampersand.

    Random Writing Things yuki_onna 2008

  • The sculpture and decorative-arts galleries, known as the Kunstkammer, are being renovated by Viennese architect and set designer Hans Hoffer -- who also reinstalled the museum's collection of antiquities -- and are scheduled to reopen around 2009.

    Museum Makeovers: 2007

  • But he was familiar as well with Renaissance and Baroque conventions of Kunstkammer compositions depicting abundant art collections, and he had most recently copied "The School of Athens" in the Vatican, Raphael's famous mural of ancient philosophers grouped in a classical architectural space.

    Ushering the Old Masters Into the New World John Wilmerding 2011

  • His Kunstkammer, now housed in the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology, was famous for many things, but particularly its collection of human and animal deformities.

    Finders, Keepers: Eight Collectors Heather McDougal 2007

  • His Kunstkammer, now housed in the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology, was famous for many things, but particularly its collection of human and animal deformities.

    Archive 2007-04-01 Heather McDougal 2007

  • The reconstructed globe, stolen by the Germans in World War II and recovered by US troops, now resides at the St. Petersburg Kunstkammer.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • Recent post title: The Lure of Antiquity, the Cult of the Machine, and the Kunstkammer.

    Germs 2007

  • Renovations at the Kunstkammer; and below, sculpture covered during the work.

    Museum Makeovers: 2007

  • The Kunstkammer is "the last element" in the museum's modernization, says Mr. Seipel.

    Museum Makeovers: 2007

  • Recent post title: The Lure of Antiquity, the Cult of the Machine, and the Kunstkammer.

    Arms and Armor 2007

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