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COMPOSITION OF COLLECTION OBJECTS IN CABINET OF CURIOSITIES AND ITS RELEVANCE IN MUSEUM TODAY
"A museum, viewed as a technology of behavior management, serves to educate people and the need to collect important objects by an organization of space and objects arrangement. Museums in Europe was established from collecting activities in a space is called “cabinet of curiosities” where objects arranged in and filled up all parts in space. The meaning is about wondering was developed to communicate value or knowledge from objects. The placement, arrangement, and composition of objects in space become important communicating the story behind and the aim of collecting the objects. Both composition of object in cabinet of curiosities and museum are similar through the principle of balance, unity, contrast, that seduced our eyes to see and understand the story behind the objects, are also some difference between cabinet of curiosities and museum, in relation to the composition of objects in space and the perception of the viewers. This paper discusses how the development of objects composition in cabinet of curiosities and museum in relation to composition principle and knowledge supporting. Objects interact with space elements become the composition that is experienced visually, where is gave choices what objects will be saw first and next to understand the story. In contrast to museum, the composition is more directional and offers objects as a highlight to be understood easily by viewers."
