Пре­об­ра­зуй­те, если это не­об­хо­ди­мо, слово EARLY так, чтобы оно грам­ма­ти­че­ски со­от­вет­ство­ва­ло со­дер­жа­нию тек­ста.

Almost every town or city today has a museum of some sort. The __________________ museums were really cabinets of "curiosities."