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The much-loved Wunderkammer Museum is unlike any other. Founded in [redacted], it houses within an atmospheric building more than [redacted] objects, photographs and manuscripts from all over the world, and from all periods of human existence. Within these are exceptional objects of ritual significance, and objects made for tourists or trade.

Our founder, Dr Albrecht Hillary was a collector of objects from around the world. He believed in the fluid nature of narrative storytelling, rearranging and repositioning objects to tell different stories and promote different ways of viewing the world and its cultures. The Wunderkammer still follows his principles today.

Upon his death, Dr Hillary wished the Wunderkammer to continue his work, and now he bequeaths these objects to you.

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  • Tickets to our permanent collection are ‘free’.

    To visit one of our temporary exhibitions please see here for details

  • Visiting us couldn’t be simpler!

    Just download our app using the link you recive when suscribing to our daily newsletter.

    You will then be asked to create an account and check your credit score against our internal biometrics so we can [Redacted].

    After this you wil be sent a link to register for membership. When this is done please send us a postcard notifying us to expect your direct debit and upon recieving this, we will issue you a welcome back in the next 4 - 5 business months to your personal home address. Among the goodies in your welcome pack you will find a map to our location.

  • Free labour from impassioned invidiuals is always valued here at The Wunderkammer. Just dont be desperate.

  • We are currently not taking on any new hauntings.

  • During my MA, I worked on a project inspired by the practise of museum intervention, something most often used to ‘disrupt’ the usual course of museum practise by creating a new narrative, comparison, or even revealing the inner workings of the museum process itself.

    After much deliberation I created The Wunderkammer, a fictional museum based on the historic cabinet of curiosity. Wunderkammern arose in mid-sixteenth-century Europe, and were in many ways the precursor to the modern museum. They were repositories of all things weird and wonderful, and primarily meant to show off the owner’s collection and imply his wealth and extensive travel experience. These collections of objects from many disciplines were rarely compiled with categorisation in mind, instead blurring the lines between science and superstition, misrepresenting, miscataloguing and misunderstanding the objects within out of both ignorance and choice in turn.

    I thought to myself, what if the cabinet was spun out into an entire museum, merging modern museum practise with its historical roots? Through this, I hoped to explore the museum process; how they represent history through the narratives of objects and how they represent themselves as an institution.

    The result is an almost 40 page museum guide, taking you through each room of The Wunderkammer in turn, and some of the objects you may encounter inside. It may look helpful, but all is not what it seems.

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