Miniature Theaters

The History and Drama of Bringing Objects Close Together

• Cabinets of Curiosities

• Symbolic Objects

• From the Book of Nature to the Theater of the World

• Collections as Art or Store

• Regarding, Ogling and Peeping

• Words and Things

• The Drama of Objects and Object Theater

• When the Image becomes Object

• When Objects Tell a Story

• When You Tell a Story with Objects

• Theaters with Boxes in Different Cultures

Louise Nevelson

Egyptian Peep Theater

Joseph Cornell

Claes Oldenburg Store

rescued from Taliban

Marcel Duchamp Valise

Jim Dine

Anette Messager