77 This behaviour is by no means occasional, as we can gather also from A Voyage to Lap-land, where Mantegazza insistently bargains for a leather chatelaine meant for his museum. At the same time, however, it is worth remarking that, if the nineteenth-century travelling ethnographers can be said to have shared a collecting frenzy that drove them to pillage all sorts of material in the exotic places they visited, Mantegazza is distinguished for his peculiar conceptualization of the museum. He was the creator of a Psychological Museum that, unlike a traditional ethnographic museum, attempted to collect material able to illustrate human passions beyond ethnicity. According to this innovative ordering criterion, the museum was intended to represent the individual variations of psychic attitudes across national, cultural, and racial boundaries rather than exhibiting self-contained instances of each people’s thought and arts. For a discussion of Mantegazza’s project, which was only partially accomplished, and details about the museum’s collection, see Edoardo Pardini and Sandra Mainardi, ‘Il Museo Psicologico di Paolo Mantegazza,’ Archivio per l’antropologia e la etnologia 121 (1991): 137–84; and Sara Ciruzzi, ‘Le collezioni del Museo Psicologico di Paolo Mantegazza a cento anni dalla sua inaugurazione,’ ibid., pp. 185–202.