Cabinet paintings showing an (art) collection in interior developed as a genre the early seventeenth century Antwerp. The depicted could be actual art imagined, idealized interior, or, more metaphorically, it also fictional of paintings, sculptures, scientific instruments, silverwork, textiles, and naturalia such flowers or shells. Jan Bruegel Elder (1568–1625) Pieter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), a...

In aspiring to investigate diverse industrial and technological collections the Congruence Engine project highlights fragmentation loss of knowledge that often occurs when an industry or individual workplace closes, a technology becomes obsolescent redundant. Until relatively recently (often due narrow institutional responsibilities collecting policies) heritage sector has had little ability se...