Jonathan Salem Baskin's Dim Bulb: Two-Headed Babies
Curiosity cabinets were history's first happenings, or performance art pieces.
Over time, science got more rigorous, and education more common. The scientific method robbed life of myths and superstitions, and replaced them with facts and repeatable processes. We lost our experience of magic, only to have it replaced with steam engines.
Serious museums emerged to educate people on this shift.
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