The Inventory of 1674 Our knowledge of the Kunstkammer's contents derives from various catalogues of the collection - the so-called inventories. The oldest surviving inventory dates from 1674, and is the only known register of the collection while it was housed at the Castle of Copenhagen: The first Apartment - with specimens from nature The second Apartment - with objets d'art and paintings The Arms Apartment - with antiques and weapons The Picture Apartment - with paintings The Mathematical Chamber - with scientific instruments and clocks The East-Indian Chamber - with ethnographica The Cabinet of Medals - with coins and medals The Antechamber - with ethnographical paintings The Model Chamber Copenhagen from the south-east. Detail of perspective view from 1611. Engraving of Jan Dirksen van Campen after the now lost painting of Jan van Wijck. (National Museum) Although the inventory is brief, it points clearly to there having been a systematic arrangement of the collection. This can also be seen from the names allocated to the individual rooms, which reveal the categories of the objects they housed. The 1674 inventory enumerates every single piece in the collection - room by room, wall by wall, cabinet by cabinet, and shelf by shelf. This enables a clear picture to be formed of how the numerous objects adorned the walls and ceilings, and how they were arranged in the different cabinets. The systematisation of the collection, found in the individual rooms, continued within the cabinets, where objects of the same type - or maybe of the same material - were placed together. To previous page Gifts for the Kunstkammer To next page Curators/Superintendents at the Kunstkammer