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For a long time chests were the classical furniture for storage. They not only protected the contents from trespassers, they also prevented rodents from getting at people's worldly goods.
Indoors people kept textiles and other valuable goods in the chest. If they went travelling, a wooden chest with iron fittings was the obvious luggage, and the servants also kept their belongings in chests, if they moved to a new master on contract day. Chests played a special role in weddings. The dowry a girl should take into her marriage would have been long collected in them.
The exhibition on cultivated living begins with the oldest pieces of furniture belonging to the museum inventory. These are two cases or chests from the time around 1550 and 1600. Both are joined of relatively rough boards and fitted with strong iron bands.
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