What is the word for a collection of obscure things?
I discovered that esoterica is what you would call a collection of esoteric things. What would a collection of obscure things be called? Obscura is definitely wrong.
The word (a noun) must fit into this sentence:
- In this room I have a wonderful collection of obscure artifacts – a/an ______.
Phantasmagoria is quite close.
3: a bizarre or fantastic combination, collection, or assemblage
[Merriam-Webster]
These are some of my most beloved words for when one comes to be the caretaker of the little absurdities in life,
A cabinet of curiosities (or Wunderkammer in German) see here
also known as ‘wonder rooms’, were small collections of extraordinary objects which
A menagerie
a collection of wild animals kept in captivity for exhibition. a strange or diverse collection of people or things.
- Historical apparatuses, from the perspectograph through to today's high-tech menagerie, are on display.
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- Their lightning-fast delivery of three-chord tunes, and lyrical menagerie of punks, runts, brats, loudmouths, and jungle queens create the illusion of dumb simplicity.
[Lexico]
Also not distinctly what you are looking for but I always thought the word "pigeonhole" had a "collection of oddities" sense to it, but that may just be me.
Beloved is the eccentric that harvests the beauty in strange things!