Natural history cabinet
Natural history collection, and kind chamber or natural history collection is one of the 18th century, typical term for a collection of objects from the three kingdoms of nature, "which commonly scientifically organized and Behufe the study of natural history, sometimes of magnificence or pleasure the dilettantes are set up "( Economic Encyclopedia , Vol. 101). The counterpart of the natural history cabinet is the cabinet of curiosities , in which not "masterpieces" of nature, but the masterpieces of craft and art were collected and systematically exhibited. Natural history cabinets were mostly housed in natural history museums in the 19th century .