2/2 Wondrous Obsessions: The Cabinet of Curiosities - Secret Knowledge

[@brandon7482]

I’ve watched this documentary several times. Wish it was longer. My room is my own little museum. My wife hates it but I love it, from the shrunken heads, to the African figures to the Indian scalps.

[@russellmarra8520]

Brandon - Sounds like a great room!

[@APhillaTHun]

You should post up your own vid.

[@delishme2]

I'm inspired to add my curiosities to a cabinet and curate a story for each of them. What a wonderful gift I can pass down 😊

[@Drobium77]

Absolutely love this!! And it's so refreshing not to have some sort of guilt trip forced upon us for this field existing. This is how things should be, wonderment ,not guilt

[@p5rsona]

why would there be guilt?

[@Drobium77]

@@p5rsona because we're made to feel guilty by proxy for just being a certain colour.

[@hbrucerinker4595]

Wonderful!!! I have had my own cabinet growing over decades from a piece of furniture into my entire home.

[@johncunha3848]

12:00... Danny Elfman's score for Edward Scissorhands! Perfect way to end.

[@opensecret51]

Wonderful dear Josh //Thank you !

[@BelaCurcio]

I just read in a book that Tradescant's wife drowned in her own pond, under very suspicious circumstances. Kiiiiinda sounds like Ashmole may have wanted that collection so bad he was willing to kill for it. Anyway I was reading those names and I thought, hey, I think I remember watching a youtube video about this... So I came back here to say... screw that guy Ashmole Oh, and I forgot to mention: Tradescant's wife, in the years between her husband's death and her own, was in the midst of a furious legal effort to try and get the collection out of Ashmole's clutches, very aware of what he was up to. It was only her... passing away... that lead to those efforts ceasing. Not sus at all.

[@laryssa.fantin]

Do you mind telling me the name of the book? I got really interested by your description

[@BelaCurcio]

@@laryssa.fantin sure no problem! The book is called Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder and it’s about a really cool private museum in LA called the Museum of Jurassic Technology, and the guy who founded it

[@suziecreamcheese211]

God you could just do so much with that name Ashmole (@$$-H0LE) and it would work.

[@junsantos1938]

I think it's just proper to change 5he name of the asmoleanmuseumto tradescant museum to give proper credit to the one who collected and spend time to put up the collection. A big slap in the face of asmolea who just showed a wicked interest to give him all the credit.

[@gnarbeljo8980]

I came looking for this comment. It's proposterous they left this most important part of the story out. As well as never using the words imperialism and colonialism once in the entire show about cabinets of curiosity. Completely senseless!🤯

[@rogerclarkjr]

Wonderful . Just loved it.

[@geoffreypiltz271]

The Cabinet of Curiosities was the Memory Theatre of Guilio Camillo, which became replaced by the dialectical memorisation of knowledge as expounded by Pierre de la Ramée and known as Ramism, essentially the same system of education that we still use today. See Frances Yates' The Art of Memory.

[@Marco-Lo-Muscio]

A documentary about the Cabinet of Curiosities without any references to the WUNDERKAMMER and the great collections of the Habsburg and Medici! Wunderkammer were the main collections with the four type of objects: Naturalia, Artificialia, Scientifica and Exotica. Unlike the cabinets of curiosities , Wunderkammer were completely full of incredible works of art! The cabinets were born from the undoing of these great collections.

[@geoffreypiltz271]

True, but this is about specifically English collections.

[@ErinFisherMusic]

Really enjoyed the narrator. Thanks for sharing

[@elderlypoodle9181]

I’m so thankful I found this channel today !!👀

[@Automedon2]

What a fascinating topic. I wonder how many of us can identify with the passion for having unusual things.

[@neilcool99]

Brilliant 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

[@doppelbanger5797]

thanks, interesting watch, why damian hurst gets mentioned as if he is relevant ill never fathom

[@geoffreypiltz271]

It is possible to see him as lying within a long tradition.

[@bealreadyhappy]

At 05:05 please note, the word university is spelt unversity! No first i!!

[@pyewackett5]

The concept is wonder.

[@2openhere]

Liked. Just wanted to say thanks. Again.

[@JamesBarry-j7m]

Wonderful 🎉🎉🎉 thank you ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@7kurisu]

love wunderkammern. would have been good to get grayson perry on to say something!

[@davidcaldecoat7414]

Fantastic

[@richaelblewett5068]

Gosh! That was fun.

[@totheway]

thanks for that

[@Justmyopinionlol]

so the narration and presenting are done by two separate people? That seems strange to me.

[@evan7046]

What's the Secret Knowledge?

[@joostvdenden]

impressively managed to discuss cabinets of curiosities without mentioning imperialism or colonialism

[@onion6foot]

Can you not accept that ppl do KNOW the injustices and violence of HUMAN history? When harping on the flaws of powerful white factions...does the commentator make certain to always include reminders that NON-white ppl ALSO engaged in terrible practices, AND STILL DO. Give it a rest. The political race-baiting.

[@gnarbeljo8980]

Bingo

[@jeffreehogue4290]

Its implied by existence

[@wheelzwheela]

Thankfully. All too often that’s what these programs focus on.

[@nigellee9824]

Well, all the wonky woke brigade will have been demonstrating at the national gallery, attacking some planet polluting painting…

[@suzannehaigh4281]

I thought I was going 6to view Curiosities as stated in the title instead of the spoken history and a few glances of a couple of item, what a dissappointment.

[@dsantamaria713]

Clicked on this to find that it was quite interesting .. I would have however, liked to hear more about some of the particular items, and their History... Very enjoyable little journey though..👍

[@louisebentley4886]

The wallhanging/mantle doesn't even look Algonquin. Anyone with even a passing acquaintance with Australian aboriginal art will recognise the creatures on the "mantle" as kangaroos.

[@geoffreypiltz271]

Aborigines have never made such artefacts as decorated mantles or cloaks. The animals are probably hares (jackrabbits). The Ojibwe people of mainly Canada have used cowrie shells ceremonially, so the narration is almost certainly correct..

[@pumpkinpatch5]

What’s with all the lifted movie music???

[@hugholiveiro2081]

A VISCERAL DOCUMENTATION OF LIFE ....AGAINST A ROBOTIC LIFE OF ( ABUNDANT TECHNOLOGY )..... SO INTERESTING.

[@buckmeiam5690]

Years ago I read a fiction novel about 18th century serial killer who collects neural node from his victims and he had a cabinet of curiosity. I thought that cabinet of curiosity is just another fiction then I stumbled upon this video 🤣🤣🤣

[@eddeewhat5553]

There’s a show on Netflix with the same name as the title of this video🤣. I thought this was about the show. Not about across the pond

[@AggresivelyBenign]

Clocked that Danny Elfman! Nice!

[@anodyne57]

You say that this thief, Ashmole, styled himself "subtly" as the owner and donor? Come on now, it sounds as though he was straight out representing himself as such. Call a spade a spade...but don't worry, I'm not calling for the renaming of the museum. Although...it wouldn't be a crime would it, for sensitive contemporaries to add a byline to the museum's name, such as "Featuring the original famous collection of John Tradescant & Son." That does have a ring to it.

[@karenw8929]

17th century scrapbooking.

[@kirschrot77]

The docu is a little repetitive in content and shallow

[@youmaythinksowrong]

RETURN THEM TO WHOM THEY BELONG

[@alexalexiadis]

Stolen ancient antiquities from all over the world!!!😢😢😢

[@geoffreypiltz271]

So sad. History is awful. It shouldn't be taught.