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Although the random collection at London ’s Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities , Fine Art & Natural History may seem like the workplace of a piece unhinged , Wynd knows exactly who he is and what his museum is all about .
Thus , there ’s no one unspoilt toexplainthis one - of - a - kind firm of curiosity – surely among theworld ’s uncanny museums– than the man himself :
Shrunken heads, skulls, and more in the Cabinet Dedicated to Dead People.
" The Museum will present an tongue-tied visual sensation of the earth displayed through wonder enclosed within a tiny blank space , no effort is made at classification and largeness , instead the museum focus on the pre - enlightenment origins of the museum as Wunderkabinett – a mirror to a universe so suffuse with miracles and beauty that any attempt at categorization is tie down to fail …
The Museum has no overreaching intent beyond the theft of it ’s visitant prison term and the Leslie Townes Hope that it will bring home the bacon amusement by return & hop-skip to fill the vacuum cleaner between what the establishment elite group conceive is worthy of adoration & what exists in the world . "
Whether we ’re meant to takeallsuch artifacts as authentic is tough to say . After all , when the museum first opened as the Little Shop of Horrors in 2009 , itbilled itselfas a place " levitate midway between theatre and sculpture , store and museum , pedantic instauration and prowess picture gallery , it is , like its founder , both an installation and a performance . "
To truly discover whether or not some of the museum ’s specimens are real , you ’ll need to see for yourself – or at least take a very close-fitting look at the exposure above .
For more of the world ’s most singular museums , measure inside Kentucky’sCreation Museumand Croatia’sMuseum of Broken Relationships .
