Museum of Unheard (of) Things

MUSEUM OF UNHEARD (OF) THINGS is the catalogue raisonné of Museum der Unerhörten Dinge, a “literary cabinet of curiosities,” which holds the record of being the most visited museum in Berlin (if one offsets the number of visitors to the square meters of the exhibition space). The book assembles the museum’s entire current inventory of 78 unique objects and their unheard (of) stories, all categorized according to weight, translated into English for the first time. The clock of a Swiss inventor who promoted “New-Time” and was subsequently arrested by the authorities, the first portrait ID card in history created for Michel de Montaigne, a fork which reveals the secret history of a meeting of chefs in the Alps, or the scandalous relationship between the Brothers Grimm and alphabet soup…These extraordinary tales of seemingly ordinary objects invite the reader to imagine the world differently by listening more carefully to all the things that surround our everyday lives.