Welcome to the Wunderkammer Museum
A world of cultures and myths to explore.
Categorical boundaries yet to be defined.
"There ’ s some order here — there are boxes with labels — but its not an order we ’ re used to seeing. Is it aesthetic? Phylogenetic? By location? Is there a clear line between human and animal, natural and artificial?"
— Dr Albrecht Hilary- Wunderkammer Founder
Coming soon
Facing Staircase House
Facing Staircase House
Opening 2025 in the Virtual Exhibition Space
Coming 2025, The Wunderkammer hosts our first ever virtual exhibition in (one-sided) partnership with Staircase House and Stockport Museums.
Facing Staircase House explores the times through which this historic property has lived, taking visitors on a tour through its 400 year history using the medium of fine art.
This exhibition utilises Stockport Heritage’s online collection, using portraiture and figurative art to both tell the personal stories of the sitters and anonymous figures that nonetheless contextualise their eras and lives through social cues, to reveal a narrative of the house and Stockport deeply rooted in the human experience.
Go free for [redacted] months
Become a member and by donating the price of entry via monthly payments and see up to one exhibition free a month!
Events and activities in the near future
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Impossible Machines
3:20pm - 3:30pm
Join us for Impossible machines. A fascinating talk by Dr Weathers Reparte, who explores the rare and sometimes inconsequential machinations that were made corporeal by the hands of some of oddest inventors ever to not quite make it onto the map.
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Amoebas & Me!
12:30am - 1:30am
Children and their adults are invited to join us at Amoebas and Me!
This fascinating workshops will get families up close and personal with amoebas, germs, microbes and bacteria in never before seen and not at all safety tested family fun experiments and activities!
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In focus: Tatton Hall’s Leech Pool
7:00am - 8:00pm
The infamous Leech Pool at the notorious Tatton Hall was well-known among fans of corporeal punishment during its heyday.
Join Ms Kitty Standards, curator at the Hall to explore the origins and remains that have been found at the depths of the pool.