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A timeline of events related to museology


 * 1657 Ferdinando Cospi (1606- 1686) donated his collection of curiosities to Bolgogna in 1657. Lorenzo Legati, Museo Cospiano annesso a quello del famoso Ulisse Aldrovandi e donato alla sua patria dall'illustrissimo Signor Ferdinando Cospi. (translation: Lorenzo Legati, Cospiano Museum annexed to that of the famous Ulisse Aldrovandi and donated to his homeland by the illustrious Mr. Ferdinando Cospi.)


 * 1677 Giuseppe Maria Mitelli’s etching of print of Cospi's Curiosity cabinet shows the "room in which the collection of Ferdinando Cospi was displayed in Bologna; along the walls are glass show-cases containing numerous natural and man-made objects, and above the cases is a bust of Dante, weapons and stuffed animals hung from the ceiling; two men point to items in the cases."


 * 1992 “One of the first full-fledged demonstrations of this interpretative strategy was Eilean Hooper-Greenhill’s Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge, several times reprinted since its appearance in 1992. “[I]nstead of attempting to find generalisations and unities,” Hooper-Greenhill proposed “to look for differences, for change, and for rupture.”