Viktor Wynd’s Wunderkabinett: On Collecting as a Psychological Condition: Lecture by Viktor Wynd

In this highly idiosyncratic lecture held at The Brown Collection, Viktor Wynd will discuss his extensive collections, which vary from natural history to dead people to surrealism, occult art, children's toys, and relics of extinct birds, orchids, ferns, ethnographica and books.  He will go on to question what it is to be a collector and why it is that such a tiny minority of people find that their life is not worth living if they do not possess a dodo's bone, a giant crab and a painting by Leonora Carrington (not to mention mammoth bones, spirit drawings, Asmat Death Masks, a lot of tropical fish, an ostrich skeleton, tube shells, grass skirts, magic stones & one or two or even three (hundred?) thousand other items.

 

 

Viktor Wynd, proprietor of London's eponymous (nay infamous) Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History has spent the last twenty five years or so building up a collection of extraordinary and mundane items much of which is displayed in his museum, he has written two books about collecting - 'Cabinet of Wonders'  & 'The UnNatural History Museum' -  his anthology 'Dark Fairy Tales' was published by Prestel RANDOMHOUSE in autumn 2025.

 

Further Information

Booking is required due to limited capacity.

This event is fully accessible, with lift access available to Gallery 3, where the event will take place. Please note that Gallery 2, located in the basement, is not wheelchair accessible due to the building's historic nature. Kindly inform us of any specific requirements when making your booking so that we may assist you.

Light refreshments will be served.

Any queries, please email: laurie@glenn-brown.co.uk