Traces of Meanings in Catalogues and Collections. The Eighteenth-Century Mineral Cabinet.
Daria Novgorodova – A museum item has no single meaning but layers of them. All these meanings, both historical and contemporary, interact and accumulate, are unseen but remain a crucial part of its museum essence, and they leave traces. In this contribution, I aim to address the question of traces left behind, engaging with the history of the Mineral Cabinet of the SPb Kunstkamera (1714-1836), the first public mineral collection in Russia.


