L. Moscardo’s Wunderkammer

The room is dedicated to Ludovico Moscardo (Verona, 1611-1681) and his collection. Responding to an authentic vocation, at just over twenty years he began to take an interest in all that is art and nature.
Ludovico Moscardo was among the first in Italy to inaugurate the new seventeenth-century conception of the museum as a "microcosm", conceptually linked to the models of the Kunst-und Wunderkammer.
While privileging the arts to the "naturalia", the ambition of the Moscardo Museum was to reflect harmoniously the multiple, confused and often incomprehensible aspects of the Cosmos.
At the center of the room is displayed in the window a printed volume (Verona, 1672) illustrating the Museum of Moscardo. The catalogue also describes finds from the collection of Francesco Calzolari (1522-1609), a Veronese apothecary known for setting up one of the world’s first Natural Museums. The Calzolari collection was purchased in 1673 by Moscardo.