If you’re coming to LA for AAM you’ll be able to see the real thing but in a shameless plug, I had to share the next best thing. We’re opening a redesigned gallery featuring Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture and Decorative Arts.

Click here to see the re-designed gallery.

A focal piece of the sculpture and decorative arts galleries is an extraordinary collector’s cabinet from Augsburg, Germany, which represents the 17th-century desire to gather and order knowledge. Cabinets such as this, along with items of natural, artistic, and intellectual interest originally kept within, are essentially forerunners of today’s museums.

Although it isn’t known what was kept in this cabinet, its many surfaces are richly decorated. This interactive presentation—also available in the gallery near the cabinet itself—enables you to discover the piece’s many surprises.

Click here to interactive with the cabinet.

But that’s not the coolest thing. The coolest thing would be this:

Instructions can be found here.

Shameless plug, I know. Sorry.