Purchases for the Kunstkammer The Danish ambassador in the Low Countries, Peder Charisius (1608-85), purchased various items for the king, including in 1656 an East Indian teapot with a lid attached to a gilt chain - probably the same teapot that is now part of the National Museum's Ethnographic Collection. Charisius also bought an Egyptian mummy, and had it shipped in its case to Copenhagen. It is now in the Collection of Classical and Near Eastern Antiquities of the National Museum. The Museum Wormianum represented a quite exceptional purchase. Following the death of the physician and antiquary Ole Worm in 1654, Frederik III purchased his collections, which resulted in the first substantial enlargement of the Kunstkammer. Mummy with coffin. Engraving from Museum Regium 1696 Two distinct types of Renaissance collections were now combined: On the one hand a princely kunstkammer, and on the other a Renaissance scholar's cabinet of specimens. A good number of the items included in the Museum Wormianum are still to be found in various Danish museums. To previous page The Kunstkammer at Copenhagen Castle To next page Gifts for the Kunstkammer