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Jan van Haasteren Puzzle 'Cabinet of Curiosities'

If you are looking for the 1000 piece Jan van Haasteren Puzzle called 'Cabinet of Curiosities', this is it. It is the puzzle 'Cabinet of Curiosities' (Gallery of Curiosities) – this is number 20032. And that is this puzzle:

This 1000 piece puzzle was published on September 19, 2020, and is together with the other puzzle 'Rembrandt's Atelier (Rembrandt's Studio)' in a 2-in-1 combo box. That's this one:

Both of these puzzles are drawn by Rob Derks. This puzzle is available 'separately' in 1000 pieces, but then you come to the cabinet of curiosities that was published by 'Holdson' with number 77378. You can also order it in a non-combi box, but then it is in 3000 pieces .

What is a Cabinet of Curiosities?

A cabinet of curiosities is a cabinet in which people used to keep their art or their curiosities. You can say that the entire collection of art and objects is then called the Cabinet of Curiosities. A cabinet is a storage unit in which the objects/art was kept.

Nowadays we don't see any cabinets of curiosities anymore, or hardly at all. In the past (1600-1800), these cabinets of curiosities became more and more popular, because people kept getting to know other parts of the world and traveled there. Then all kinds of products / dried animals / art were taken from those countries. These 'rarities' were then placed in a cabinet (storage furniture) and 'exhibited'. So that people who came to visit could see where they had not been. Visitors could then admire and view all those 'rarities'.

Jan van Haasteren and his Cabinet of Curiosities?

Jan van Haasteren's puzzle is not specifically a piece of storage furniture, but a very large museum of rarities. You do indeed see many dead and stuffed animals from the past. But you also see all kinds of real 'rarities', such as a Baron van Tast walking out of a mirror. Or a very fat Elvis Presley walking down the stairs. It therefore seems that Jan van Haasteren has represented the word 'Rarities' both literally and figuratively in this puzzle.

Laying this puzzle

I happened to get this puzzle on my birthday. I had mainly asked for a whole new puzzle. Usually I buy second-hand puzzles from Jan van Haasteren via Marktplaats or Facebook. But a whole new one is of course much more fun, and then also a very recent puzzle. I felt like it!
I made this puzzle on a new puzzle mat I bought. You can read more about this further on this page. The puzzle mat has a size of 118 centimeters (length) x 66 centimeters (width). It often takes me several days to make a puzzle and I really do need a puzzle mat, so that I can store it every few days and take it out again. I must say that these were very fine puzzle pieces, very nice and smooth and do not fall apart easily. One is sometimes more bothered by this than the other, but compared to the puzzle for example 'Children's party' (also a whole new one), I found this to be much better and nicer in terms of quality.
I always start by explaining the pieces and then I first place the edges, that result looks like this (you see that with white stripes on the puzzle mat it is indicated where you can place your puzzle of what size):

You can see that the puzzle mat was suitable for a puzzle of 1000 pieces, but that many pieces will be outside this puzzle mat. That is not very convenient with storage. As you can see I started with the orange jetty, those were the most recognizable pieces. And of course the green bright pieces of the aquarium with the two mermaids in it. Also placed some other 'blocks' with green in them, such as the Boy Scouts and the ghost that appears from the magic lamp:

And this is how you see the puzzle a bit better:

I am then a lot further; I've almost finished the Boy Scouts, and I've almost finished the squid, only some tentacles still need to be completed. You can see that I already put a lot of pieces in place inside the puzzle. The great thing about puzzling is that you immediately see all the very funny elements, such as Elvis Presley here; definitely a rarity to see him walking around like that in a museum!!

At a certain point I also started with the top, which was easy enough for me to put on. I expected that to be very difficult. Especially the difficult were all those Baron from Taste to Zeveren people walking around! A lot!!

And finally I finished the puzzle! That's always a really fun moment. The hardest part was all those brown walls and all those people. But all the way to the last I had saved the skeleton, actually I should have taken a picture of it. I've read before that people leave the laying of that big skeleton with all those white bones until last; that one is the hardest!

More about this puzzle

The cabinet of curiosities puzzle is really a very nice puzzle to put together and you can look at all the curiosities you see for a long time after laying. And a lot of signs are in English, sometimes you have to use google translate 🙂
What do you see? Elvis Presley, who descends the stairs very fat, a unicorn who has been in the museum for a while and has already pooped quite a bit, a somewhat weird old man who shows a 'voodoo doll' to a small child. It's super nice to see that quite a few men have become petrified, because they have looked at Medusa (the one with the green snake hair), and you see that the women have not become petrified. Medusa leaves a trail of petrification. There is a beautiful golden model called 'El Dorado', would the El Dorado look like this? A man who throws money into a parking machine for his flying carpet. It is in this puzzle full of rarities!! Take a look and search for yourself, or watch my videos on this page.

The unpacking video of the puzzle 'Day to the Museum' - Cabinet of Curiosities

I made an unpacking video of the box that contains the puzzle 'Cabinet of Curiosities'. This is a combo box:

General review about the 'Cabinet of Curiosities' puzzle

I made a general review about this jigsaw puzzle, in which you see some nice elements of this puzzle:

The Holdson Funny World (HFW) edition is a rare edition

This is a rare puzzle.

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Name Puzzle	Gallery of Curiosities
Price	€70 - €90 (Estimate)
Number of Pieces	1000 Pieces
Number	77378
Year of Issue	2021
Issue by	Holdson Funny World (HFW)
draftsman	Robert Derks
Description
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This puzzle is in 1 or more search books

This puzzle is in 1 or more search books by Jan van Haasteren. These are not only fun search books to search for recurring elements, you can also ideally use the image of this puzzle as an 'extra' large poster while puzzling! View the overview with our 'Jan van Haasteren search books'

More about the cabinet of curiosities puzzle

The artist of this puzzle is Rob Derks of the Jan van Haasteren Studio. Rob Derks mainly draws puzzles with old historical elements in them. I was also able to recognize a number of elements from antiquity in the Cabinet of Curiosities puzzle. Those are the following.

Aladin and the Miracle Lamp

Aladin and the Miracle Lamp, also written as Aladdin or Alladin, is one of the best-known fairy tales from the One Thousand and One Nights story cycle. The story is about a wanderer named Aladin, who finds a lamp that houses a jinn (ghost). This genie is allowed to fulfill the wishes of the lamp's owner, and the genie only appears when the lamp is stroked by hand.

Medusa

Medusa was a female character from Greek Mythology. In short, the story goes like this: Medusa once had a special beauty. However, to her chagrin, she lived in a country where the sun never shone. Medusa begged Athena to let her leave for sunny lands. However, Athena and Medusa quarreled, Athena was jealous of the beautiful beauty of Medusa. The savage Athena took revenge by turning Medusa's hair into a bunch of writhing snakes (you can see that in the puzzle too, Medusa has green snake hair). Furthermore, anyone who looked at Medusa would turn to stone. From that moment on, it would be Medusa'a's task to petrify as many people as possible. And you can also see on the puzzle that Medusa leaves a whole stone-people trail!

Mouth of Truth – Bocca Della Verita

The Mouth of Truth is still there in Rome and is immensely popular with tourists. There are often long queues. It's actually a lie detector. It used to be believed that if you put your hand in the mouth of this effigy, it would be bitten off if you ever lied once in your life. I can't say for sure if this is the same as on the puzzle, but I can see the person putting their hand in the 'worm hole'; this hand is coming out again by the way 🙂

Firebird Phoenix / Phoenix

The firebird Phoenix (Phoenix) used to be known for always rising from its ashes, the firebird was a symbol of infinite life. This Firebird appears in ancient Egyptian myths.

Jan van Haasteren 'Cabinet of Curiosities' 1000 pieces - Recurring elements

The nice thing about this puzzle is that after puzzling there is still a kind of search puzzle. You are looking for the fixed recurring elements of Jan van Haasteren. Can you find them all, or are they just not there?? The crab, the teeth, the shark fin, the Tax Official, the arrows, the hands, the eyes, etc etc. There are many in this puzzle, and I have made videos and photos of them below. Try looking for them yourself before viewing them below.

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 1: The 3 holes

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 2: Baron van Tast tot Zeveren

Baron van Tast tot Zeveren is an old cartoon character from a strip that Jan van Haasteren used to draw. Usually he appears only 1x or not at all in a puzzle, but this time he is on the puzzle no less than 13x. Can you find them all?

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 3: De Bril

The glasses are always hard to find, at first I thought they weren't on the puzzle, but they were there, hard to find:

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 4: Boy Scouts of Scouting

The Boy Scouts or Scouting are not very common in Jan van Haasteren's puzzles:

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 5: The WC

Not really the toilet as it normally appears in the JvH puzzles, namely a toilet sign and a string to pull through, but I mentioned it anyway:

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 6: The Fat Woman

The Fat Woman sometimes appears on the puzzles, always with a smaller man in a smart suit. The fat woman usually looks angry:

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 7: The Teeth

The teeth are one of my favorites because they are so hard to find:

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 8: De Haaienvin

Yes, THE hallmark of jan van Haasteren puzzles, he is definitely back:

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 9: The Hands

The hands are often more, but I have not counted them all:

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 10: The Intkvis

The squid is also a regular item at Jan van Haasteren, he is now cleaning:

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 11: The Krab

I had also overlooked the crab at first, but it is definitely there:

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 12: The Eyes

The eyes, often you see several, but only 1x in this puzzle:

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 13: The Periscope

Periscope can also be seen, hard to find by the way:

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 14: The Arrow

You can hardly see the Arrow, it's a bit because of the way I took the picture, but you can see it at the very top of the top edge:

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 15: De Plaisters

I always like the band-aids, and go look for them all. I found 3 of them:

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 16: The Poes

The cat or cat is also super cute. Often the cat tries to catch a mouse or bird or fish. However, see what the mouse is doing, he is going to push a wooden box on the cat!!

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 17: Police and Boef

Police and crook are a nice couple, however you see the crook, who has used the cloak of invisibility (see under 'Cloak of Invisibility – this coat has grabbed the crook, and therefore virtually invisible! – you can see these items on the puzzle if you look a little under the crook, there you see a bracket with a sign above it):

Well, and the police officers, who are quite hopelessly looking for the crook:

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 18: Rob Derks AC/DC

An element of Rob Derks includes AC/DC:

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 19: Rob Derks Blauwe Pen

The blue pen is characteristic of Rob Derks and in this puzzle you will find 9 blue pens:

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 20: Rob Derks De Blauwe Slurf

And very characteristic is the Blue trunk:

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 21: Rob Derks De Tweeling

You often see twins, and this time it's the mermaid:

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 22: Rob Derks Freddie Mercury Queen

You don't see him often, but Freddie Mercury appears in a few puzzles. If you want to know them all, have a look further on this page 'recurring elements Jan van Haasteren'.

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 23: Rob Derks The Fat Man with the Bare Buttocks

The guy with the bare bottom, for sure. He still has the toilet paper between his buttocks and is being chased by a mummy:

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 24: Rob Derks People looking cross-eyed or people squinting

You often see a lot of cross-eyed people on Rob Derks' puzzles:

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 25: Sinterklaas

Sinterklaas is also petrified, has he (like Santa next to him) become petrified from looking at Medusa?

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 26: Ghost

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 27: Super snail

Supersnail and his turtle friend have another running competition:

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 28: Toothpaste and Glass

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 29: The Saw

The Saw was glassy to be found, but I found it anyway, again at the aquarium:

Jan van Haasteren puzzle 'Cabinet of curiosities' - recurring element 30: Self-portrait Jan van Haasteren

You see Jan van Haasteren (not the artist of this puzzle) together with Rob Derks (the artist of this puzzle) walking together in 1 pair of pants. That is certainly a rarity!!!

How big is the puzzle Jan van Haasteren 'Cabinet of Curiosities' 1000 pieces?

This puzzle also has dimensions of 68 (width) by 49 (height). I made the puzzle on a puzzle mat of 118 centimeters (length) x 66 centimeters (width).

Cabinet of curiosities made on a new puzzle mat

I made this puzzle once on a brand new puzzle mat. That's the puzzle mat 'Jumbo 'Puzzle & Roll Puzzle Mat Puzzle Roll 500 – 1000 – 1500 Pieces'. The puzzle mat has a size of 118 centimeters (length) x 66 centimeters (width). If you want to read the whole review, check out my special review about this one JUMBO puzzle mat of 1000 pieces.

How long will it take you to complete this 1000 piece puzzle?

I made the puzzle 'Cabinet of Curiosities' in peace and took several days to complete. Beautifully made on a puzzle mat on the floor in the living room. I do take the time, but not very precisely, it remains a hobby that puzzles! But to give you an idea of ​​how long it took me to complete this 1000 piece JvH puzzle:

• Explaining the pieces: 20 minutes
• Laying the edges = 35 minutes
• Laying the rest of the pieces = 5 hours and 30 minutes

So it took me a total of 6 hours and 20 minutes to complete this puzzle. That is a lot faster than it takes me on average over a JvH jigsaw puzzle, namely about 8 hours. I even start to doubt whether I forgot to write down 1 hour, because this is very fast. Or I've become a better puzzler

This puzzle is in 1 or more search books

This puzzle is in 1 or more search books by Jan van Haasteren. These are not only fun search books to search for recurring elements, you can also ideally use the image of this puzzle as an 'extra' large poster while puzzling! View the overview with our 'Jan van Haasteren search books'

About Jumbo puzzles

Jumbo (not to be confused with our supermarket Jumbo!) makes toys, games and puzzles. Jumbo, for example, has made the very well-known games such as “Human don't get annoyed” and “Stratego” and “PimPamPet”. Games that have been around for generations and are still widely played by both young and old. Jumbo has been making and developing toys since about 1900. In the early years of the company, only toys from other countries were imported to the Netherlands. However, since about 1930 it was decided to also make their own toys, at the time manufacturing wooden toys, which was very popular at the time. Almost all toys in those years were made of wood. An important spearhead was that the toys made by Jumbo had to be of very good quality; it had to be as strong as an Elephant. An elephant had to stand on it! The red elephant has been the hallmark of Jumbo's games and puzzles for years. The name Jumbo and the red elephant together form the logo from about 1935. The Jumbo elephant is drawn by Mr. Möhr. He worked at an advertising agency and regularly signed for Hausemann & Hötte. Mr Möhr was at one point commissioned to design a beautiful new elephant logo for the Hausemann & Hötte toys. The logo has changed a bit since then. For example, the eye has grown over the years and has dropped slightly more, resulting in a friendlier elephant.

In the past, the elephant was not only used in the color red, but in all kinds of colors such as blue, yellow, black, white and green. All those colors were cozy and playful. For example, one time there was a yellow elephant on the box and the other time a red one. It was usually looked at which color best matched the color of the box. It was not until the end of the 60s that the red elephant was definitively chosen. Red is a color that stands out and attracts attention.

From 1945 Jumbo also started to focus on games made of cardboard. Jumbo has therefore been a guarantee for strong quality for years! Jumbo is a unique Dutch company with a rich history, with its head office in Zaandam. About 130 employees work for Jumbo. With a turnover of €75 million, Jumbo is a medium-sized European player in toys. Jumbo has sales offices in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom. They export to more than 25 countries around the world.

In 1980 Jumbo starts the production of Jan van Haasteren Puzzles.

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