“Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities,” at the Museum of Modern Art, was inspired by the Renaissance wunderkammer or “cabinet of curiosities.” That’s a fairly eccentric idea for a place as identified with classic modernism as the Modern, but the show relies on too many of the museum’s usual suspects.

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/08/22/arts/20080822-CURI_index.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22curi.html?_r=1&oref=slogin