August 10

It’s Beervana 2017. Welcome to the weird and wondrous world of the Cabinet of Curiosities. Today the name cabinet sounds a little underwhelming. It brings to mind a small cupboard, but back in the 16th century a Cabinet of Curiosities was a private museum and would often fill a whole room or multiple rooms. In Germany, where they have a knack for cool names, they were called Wunderkammer, or room of wonders. They were collections of the most marvelous, unusual, exotic and fascinating objects to be found - filled with botanical and zoological specimens, ethnographic curiosities from far away lands,...