Fil: Gabrieloni, Ana L. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Laboratorio Texto, imagen y sociedad [LabTIS]; ArgentinaFil: Gabrieloni, Ana L. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaThis study aims at exploring unsystematic yet radically innovative changes introduced by literary texts and films d’art in traditional art-history discourse. We propose that things and beings assembled in literary and filmographic creations by Virginia Woolf et Roger Caillois among others, where essayism (Thomas Harrison 1992) is at work, constitute imaginary museums contributing to non-canonical art history. Since its reminiscences of ancient cabinets of curiosities, we define this history on and in images as “natural art history.” Things left out from real museums inscribe themselves therein to overcome the consuming effect of time and to become a conjectural kind of cultural documents.