Bizarre Beasts and Animal Hybrids at World's Oldest "Cabinet of Curiosities” | Italy Ep. 6 скачать в хорошем качестве

Bizarre Beasts and Animal Hybrids at World's Oldest "Cabinet of Curiosities” | Italy Ep. 6

Welcome to the “Theater of Nature”, a world of the strange and anomalous, a natural science museum originating in the 16th-century, that contains over 18,000 animal artifacts. POV Bologna, Italy in the legendary Bologna Zoological Museum collection of Ulisse Aldrovandi found in the Museo di Palazzo Poggi. This is a real take without the travel vlogger hype - the is the video I wish I had seen before going, so I'd leave sooner and make my way there as quickly as possible. The Bologna Zoological Museum, part of the University of Bologna’s Sistema Museale d'Ateneo, is most famous for being one of the earliest and most significant "cabinets of curiosity," originating from Ulisse Aldrovandi’s 16th-century collection. Aldrovandi, a pioneering naturalist, amassed over 18,000 specimens of “diversità di cose naturali” (diverse natural things), including taxidermied animals, wet specimens, and hybrids, which laid the groundwork for modern natural history —creating what is considered the first major "cabinet of curiosity" or "wonder room." The museum is renowned for its historical significance, housing rare and bizarre artifacts like Aldrovandi’s bird-lizard hybrids, a taxidermied Indian rhinoceros, and a giant Mola mola sunfish from the 1940s. Its blend of scientific history and oddities, often described as a “theater of nature,” makes it a unique draw, as highlighted by sources like Atlas Obscura, which notes its origins as the first great curiosity cabinet. You could say it’s most famous for its role as a foundational collection in zoology and its display of peculiar, historical specimens that capture the wonder of early natural science. These cabinets were precursors to modern museums, blending science and spectacle to showcase the diversity of the natural world. Atlas Obscura specifically notes that the Bologna Zoological Museum "began as the first great curiosity cabinet". While other curiosity cabinets emerged around the same time, Bologna’s is often credited as the first of its scale and influence, setting a model for later museums. #bologna #italy #zoology