It’s well known that the mu­se­ums of our time are built upon a gradual subsumption of the medieval ‘public’ col­lec­tions -usual­ly churches, abandoned monasteries and the like. Aw­are­ness of these ‘public’ col­lec­tions only ­sur­fa­ced at the end of the eighteenth cen­tu­ry, and it was only during the ni­ne­teenth cen­tu­ry that the mu­se­um, as we now know it, could be said to have taken shape. The medieval col­lec­tion comprised of, for ex­amp­le, relics, paintings and other ob­jects of curiosity that were collected in monasteries and churches with­in a more or less spe­ci­fi­cal­ly spiritually edifying purpose and thus not to est­abl­ish any ‘col­lec­tion’, in a more simple understanding.