Byline: Hilbrand Wouters
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Curated Curiosity – reinstituting science museums as Wunderkammern after modernity
A walk through a twenty-first century science museum is rarely straight. As in other museums, professionals working in science museums experiment with their curatorial practices: they shuffle their showcases, scutter through depots to find forgotten objects, and try to uncover unseen entanglements. These curatorial practices often explicitly aim to revive “cabinets of curiosities” or “Wunderkammern”,…