Notable Collections Started in This Way
- Ashmolean Museum Oxford — Ashmole and Tradescant collections
- Boerhaave Museum in Leiden
- British Museum London — Sir Hans Sloane's and other collections
- Chamber of Art and Curiosities at Ambras Castle in Austria remain largely intact
- Fondation Calvet, Avignon
- Grünes Gewölbe in Dresden
- Kunstkamera in Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Pitt Rivers Museum (Oxford, England) — Ex-Ashmolean Dodo
- Teylers Museum in Haarlem
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