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Books > Arts & Architecture > Antiques & collectables > General
The Kunstkammer in Dresden's Royal Palace houses a fascinating
variety of collected objects from the late Renaissance and early
Baroque periods. It owes its unique collection of plain and ornate
tools, for example, to the founder of the Kunstkammer, Elector
August (1526-1586). They range from gardening equipment to
goldsmithing, carpentry and ironworking tools and even to so-called
Brechzeugen (tools for prising or breaking things open). In
addition, the museum guide presents elaborately decorated art-room
cabinets, two richly embellished Augsburg cabinets, tables inlaid
with iridescent mother-of-pearl, precious board games, and musical
instruments alongside filigree woodturned pieces, items of
decorative art, and objects from distant cultures. Numerous
previously unpublished masterpieces from the Kunstkammer in
Dresden's Royal Palace
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