About the Cabinet

Cabinets of curiosities (also known as Cabinets of Wonder and Wonder-chambers) were encyclopedic collections of objects whose categorical boundaries were, in Modern Europe (XVIth – XVIIIth Century), still to be defined.

"The Cabinet of curiosities was regarded as a microcosm or theater of the world, and a memory theater. The Cabinet of curiosities conveyed symbolically the patron's control of the world through its indoor, microscopic reproduction". Francesco Fiorani, reviewing Bredecamp 1995 in Renaissance Quarterly 51.1 (Spring 1998:268-270) p 268.

Therefore, this site is attempting to be as a Cabinet of curiosities, either because it's primarily made up of links to things that are interesting, or because it inspires "wonder" in a similar manner to the original Cabinet of curiosities.
Cabinet of curiosities blog was started in first half of 2014. It lives, breathes and eats press releases from research institutions and news of scientific journals around the globe. Most of what you read here are articles from scientific journals.
The culmination of this site allow viewers to encounter work from across all scientific disciplines, ranging from theoretical and applied science to actual technologies.

The other half of the equation is that it's a blog written and maintained by readers like you. So if you have an interest in science & technology, drop us a line and we may be able to hook you up to join others in an ongoing, vibrant dialog about what makes and researches the world.

See you soon, friends.