A museum is more than the sum of its tasks. Collecting, preserving, researching, exhibiting and communicating are the cornerstones of museum work. What is primarily visible to visitors is the exhibiting and communicating. About a quarter of the inventory is on display in the Murnau Castle Museum. The objects are shown in the collection presentation and in special exhibitions. Three quarters of the inventory is kept in the depot. Most of the stored objects are exhibited in rotation over the years, depending on the exhibition theme and the focus of the collection. Some are only awakened from their deep sleep after decades and others are not exhibited at all - e.g. fragile documents and photographs that could be damaged by light in the long term. If an object that is sensitive to conservation is essential for an exhibition, the museum works with reproductions or facsimiles. Under the theme of the Cabinet of Curiosities, we have brought together objects in this presentation whose histories - from the mammoth tooth to Nikolaus Lang's work "Whitewater Journey of the Sintered Buzzard" - span a period of several thousand years. Every object presented in this room has its connection to the town of Murnau and to the collection concept of the castle museum. While the themes of Murnau are in the foreground one floor up in the market square, the focus here is solely on the object. The intention is also to provide an insight into the diverse inventory in order to raise awareness of the museum's tasks of preservation and research, which are not normally the focus of a museum tour. The castle museum is primarily a collection and preservation site for Murnau's art and cultural history, the cultural memory of the town and its residents.