EditorialThe bust of Hans Sloane, a physician and collector of curiosities which formed the basis of the British Museum when it was founded in 1753, in its new place in a display case at the newly-reopened museum in London on Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. (Tom Jamieson/The New York Times)
EditorialExodio Montes de Oca, owner of Mexican Curiosities, tends to his shop on the first day Texas lifted some of the business restrictions set to slow the spread of the coronavirus, San Antonio, Texas, May 1, 2020. (Christopher Lee/The New York Times)