Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

We've all had to make them at some point in our lives.

We grab a shoebox, some glue and construction paper, and we build a little tablo inside

for a school project.

Maybe it depicts a particular scene from a book that we've read, or an important moment

in history.

And when we're done, we stand in front of the class until everyone about what we've

made.

Obviously, it can't be over fast enough, Kenneth.

There is little else that's more awkward than telling your classmates about the action

figures and paper trees that you've glued inside of a shoebox.

But from the 15th to the 19th centuries, people used to make a living with their tiny

diaramas.

Folks would flock to their stands in the streets to have a look for themselves, but they

weren't called diaramas back then.

They were called raries.

The origin of the word rary most likely stems from the word rarity.

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