Puppets at Victor Wynd Last Tuesday Society, Hackney, London

. Puppets and curiosities displayed inside the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, home of The Last Tuesday Society in Hackney, east London, England, UK. The photograph shows part of the museum's deliberately crowded, theatrical and unconventional interior, where puppets, figures, artworks, found objects and unusual specimens are presented together in the tradition of a Wunderkammer or cabinet of curiosities. Artist and collector Viktor Wynd developed the Mare Street venue as a place that deliberately resists conventional museum classification, bringing together objects because they are strange, beautiful, macabre, comic, uncanny or simply intriguing. The Last Tuesday Society established its Hackney premises in 2008, initially combining a gallery with Viktor Wynd's Little Shop of Horrors before the basement collection evolved into the present Museum of Curiosities. Its displays range across art, natural history, taxidermy, skulls, skeletons, dolls, toys, occult material, erotica, ephemera and objects associated with popular culture and folklore. The presentation recalls the pre-Enlightenment cabinet of wonders, when collectors assembled natural and artificial curiosities before modern museums divided knowledge into specialist disciplines. The image is suitable for editorial coverage of quirky London attractions, unusual museums, independent arts venues, puppetry, outsider art, collecting, cabinets of curiosities, Wunderkammer culture, alternative tourism, Hackney culture, eccentric interiors, macabre collections and London's less conventional visitor destinations. It also records the distinctive maximalist visual identity that has made Viktor Wynd and The Last Tuesday Society a cult feature of east London's cultural scene. It also suits stories about dark tourism, independent museums, outsider culture, theatrical display and the modern appetite for unusual, immersive and deliberately non-mainstream visitor experiences.