Back in 2006, a curator at a museum in Copenhagen was going through boxes in the storage area.

The new Carlsberg Glyptotech, or the Glyptotech, as it was generally known,

features 19th century paintings from the Danish Golden Age.

It's got sculptures from French artists like Rodin and Degas,

and it's renowned for its ancient Greek and Roman collections.

On this particular day, the curator was preparing to put on a new display of the museum's antiquity collection.

So she was rifling through the archives when she opened the box. The box filled

with noses. There were sculpted noses made of marble and plaster of every shape and size.

There were a few ears, some locks of hair, and a fig leaf or two.

But what there wasn't was any notes, no identifying information,

about what noses belong to which faces.

Where did these noses come from?

And why were they eventually put on display in the museum?

I'm Dillon Thuris, and this is Atlas Obscira. I'millon Thuris, and this is Atlas Obscira, a celebration of the world's strange,

incredible, and wondrous places.

Today, we go to the Glyptitech and sniff out how this nose collection came to be.

Okay. came to be. The new Carlsberg Gliphtech is an archaeological dream.

It's got a huge collection of sculptures from the Roman and Greek Empire.

In one exhibit, a man wields a sword above his head while he's

trying to hold off an invisible rival. Across the room, there's a woman in a dance-like pose.

It sort of feels like you're walking through ancient Rome as you go through the museum.

The museum itself opened in 1897. Much of the art here is from the private collection of the son of the founder

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