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A fiction allows one to see the truth and also what it hides.
Marcel Broodthaers

The art museum is a complex structure that has been evolving for centuries, starting with the emergence of the kunstkammer and wunderkammer in the 16th century; encyclopedic collections of diverse objects that attempted to purvey a vision of the world. These cabinets usually belonged to the wealthy or the aristocracy, whose economic power made possible the accumulation of rare objects and works of art. They paved the way for the formation of royal collections, which –during the social and political upheavals of …