Vienna's Chamber of Wonders

Adrian Mourby welcomes the return to public view of the Habsburgs’ esoterica.

Inside one of the Kuntskammer roomsIn March this year Vienna reopened its Kunstkammer, a chamber of curiosities within the city’s museum of art history. For more than 10 years this strange symbol of Habsburg prestige had been kept from public display.

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