a form of propaganda" [2] Besides the most famous, best documented cabinets of rulers and aristocrats, members of the merchant class and early practitioners of science in Europe , formed collections that were precursors to museums . Montezuma's Headdress More about the cabinets of curiosities: http://agoras.typepad.fr/regard_eloigne/2007/03/espace_de_jeu_e.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_of_curiosities http://pages.infinit.net/cabinet/ http://www.deliberate.com/aztec/ Posted by