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Elizabeth Diller Explains How 17th-Century Cabinets of Curiosities Inspired the V&A Project

Elizabeth Diller Explains How 17th-Century Cabinets of Curiosities Inspired the V&A Project Image: Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

The project responds to the challenge of exhibiting a collection as heterogeneous and monumental as that of the V&A.

Diller describes the intended visitor experience as entering the delirium of the collection, sublime in its grandeur.

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