How is a collection dedicated to non-European cultures and arts formed? What roadmap should a national museum at the crossroads of fine arts, ethnology and modern art follow? We take a look behind the scenes of an institution through twenty years of acquisitions
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Detail from an image in Andreas Cellarius’ Harmonia Macrocosmica (1660), an atlas of the stars from the Dutch Golden Age of cartography which maps the structure of the heavens in twenty-nine extraordinary double-folio spreads.Illustration from the “macrocosm” chapter in the great occult philosopher Robert Fludd’s The Metaphysical, Physical, and Technical History of the Two Worlds (1617–21).