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Artist Rosamund Purcell usually photographs natural history artifacts in the back rooms of science museums. But for her current project, on view in Boston at the Tufts University Gallery, she does more. Purcell recreates an entire cabinet of wonders from 1655. Produced by Harriet Baskas.

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