Between 2015 and 2017 we, an interdisciplinary group of artists, architects and scientists climbed 17 Volcanoes on the island of Java. We reenacted some expeditions conducted in the mid 19^th century by the German-Dutch explorer Franz Junghuhn (1809-1864).  In 2016 we reenacted the reenactment in the Harz area of central Germany, near Junghuhn’s birthplace, and produced an artificial eruption on the volcano-shaped slag heap of a former copper mine. In 2023 we presented part of our work in an exhibition in Dresden, near the famous Grünes Gewölbe. This baroque Wunderkammer, packed with gemstones and precious artifacts, is at the core of the European museal display system. An accumulation of precious objects, based on colonialism and extractivism keeps haunting the imagination of the Western museum. How can we make productive this tension? How can we connect the current climate of opinions in the curatorial discourse with the early phase of volcanology? Can we depict the work of exploration in the 19^th century, the labor of mining, and our own mining of meaning on a representational level? Who can break the spell of the Grünes Gewölbe?