The essence of Peter's cabinet of curiosities in a few sentences

The essence of Peter's cabinet of curiosities in a few sentences. "Our museum is about the culture and way of life of the peoples of the world, and therefore it does not display the freaks, dwarfs, giants and other monsters who amused the grandees of the eighteenth century," ran a notice on the doors of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera), which was still hanging there in the 1980s at the very least. The message of the museum administration is clear enough, but it might have behaved more consistently and, for instance, refrained from calling the remains that form part of the exhibition monsters