Animal taxidermy in Viktor Wynd's Wunderkabinett at the Museum of Curiosities and Last Tuesday Society, Hackney, London

Interior taxidermy display at the Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History, 11 Mare Street, Hackney, east London, England, UK. Mounted animal heads including antelope and other horned mammals surround a zebra head and a wildebeest beneath a hand-painted sign reading Viktor Wynd's Wunderkabinett, creating the deliberately theatrical atmosphere of a traditional cabinet of curiosities. The museum is the home of The Last Tuesday Society, an eccentric arts organisation brought to London in 2006 by artist and collector Viktor Wynd and David Piper. The Society opened premises in Mare Street in 2008, initially combining Viktor Wynd Fine Art on the ground floor with Viktor Wynd's Little Shop of Horrors, a basement curiosity shop conceived somewhere between sculpture, theatre, museum and shop. The project evolved into a permanent Wunderkabinett filled with objects chosen for their strange, beautiful, macabre, uncanny or absurd qualities rather than conventional museum classification. Today the venue describes itself as a Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History and draws on the pre-Enlightenment tradition of the Wunderkammer or cabinet of wonders. Its collections range across taxidermy, natural history, skulls, skeletons, entomology, human hair, occult objects, old dolls, curios, artworks and supposed mythical creatures, including its Cabinet of Monsters. The museum deliberately rejects a conventional chronological or scientific narrative, instead presenting a dense and idiosyncratic collection intended to provoke wonder and curiosity. Above the basement museum is the Absinthe Parlour, while the site also hosts exhibitions, talks, performances and unusual events. This photograph captures the distinctive maximalist interior and taxidermy aesthetic that has made Viktor Wynd's Hackney museum a cult London attraction associated with outsider art, curiosity collecting, the macabre, alternative culture and unconventional tourism.