Martha Glowacki created this wunderkammer for the Chipstone Foundation’s re-installation of the American decorative arts exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum in in 2008. It was a stunning show, mixing art and nature – animal, vegetable, and mineral – in provocative ways. You’ll never look at a ball-and-claw leg quite the same way again.

Entrance to “Loca Miraculi | Rooms of Wonder”, lower level in the Milwaukee Art Museum. Photo by Jim Wildeman.