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CataloguesEvery exhibition is followed by exhibition catalogue, which contains an exhibition's overview and lot of photos. |
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18th International
Festival of Ethnological Film Editor: Jelena Jovčić 59 pages, illustrated Ethnographic museum in Belgrade, 2009. Download |
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The Play of Varicolored
filaments - collection of the Pirot Kilims in the Ethnographic Museum in
Belgrade Author: Marina Cvetković Ethnographic museum in Belgrade 2008. The catalogue and the exhibition present selected items from the collection of the Pirot kilims in the Ethnographic museum in Belgrade. The collection consists of 165 kilims of various functional, visual and technical characteristics, originated in Pirot between 1792 and 1932. |
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"With Gloves On..." Author: Vjera Medić Ethnographic museum in Belgrade, 2007. The theme exhibition "With Gloves On..." presents the gloves collection of the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade. It contains about 163 items, arranged in systematic collections of traditional costumes of Serbia, Vojvodina, Kosovo and Metohija, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the collection of urban traditional costumes. A glove is a piece of clothing covering hands and fingers for warmth and protection. As frequently worn, gloves were exposed to damage and lasted for a short time. They were rarely found in the field, so that costumes researchers did not record and study them very often. So far, they have almost never been displayed separately, which is one of the goals of this exhibition. The period encompassed by the exhibition pertains to the early part of the nineteenth century and it starts from the oldest item in the collection of the Ethnographic Museum dating back to 1820 until the latest period of time and items from 2004. |
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Door – Gate
Between Two Worlds Author: Miloš Matić Ethnographic museum in Belgrade, 2007. The exhibition Door – Gate
Between Two Worlds is primarily a story about a front door at the
time when the traditional architecture was at its peak, before it was
influenced by authorial architectural ideas. This is the time when a
door – as well as the entire traditional architecture – already became
heavy with diverse symbolism, when it turned from a mere physical
protector of man into a supernaturally powerful entity, which was
prepared to stop not only the evil-minded, but various unpredictable
otherworldly forces and creatures. At the same time, this is a door that
has become a mirror of the house, narrating about those living in the
house. It was a door that saw a host off to his travels and greeted a
guest, welcomed a bride, hid the upright or the cruel, impeded or let
vampire, witch, pestilence, incubus, or some other otherworldly creature
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Whose Cap is this? – gold-embroidered headwear in the women’s costume
of Pannonian Serbs in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century Author: Vera Šarac-Momčilović 127 pages, illustrated, Ethnographic museum in Belgrade, 2006.  The exposition ''Whose Cap is this? – gold-embroidered headwear in the women’s costume of Pannonian Serbs in the 19th and the first half of the 20th century'' presents one of the most luxurious objects of the Serbian traditional material culture. Headwear, shawls, headscarves and caps, embroidered with gold and silver threads, adorned with colored glass beads and artificial pearls, were component part of the festive costume of wealthy Serbian women from Vojvodina, Baranja, western Slavonia, southern Hungary and the Romanian part of Banat. They were worn as symbol of ethnic identity of Serbian women from Sent Andea to Zemun and from Temišvar to Đakovo. |
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Tobacco Road in Serbia Author: Vesna Duskovic Expert associates: Jelena Tesic and Ranko Barisic Ethnographic museum in Belgrade, 2006. |
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Since it was first brought to Europe, tobacco became a significant source of income for rulers and states. It was praised, forbidden and criticized. To this day it stayed one of the greatest vices of the world’s population. smoking equipment: pipes, nargilehs, cigarette and cigar holders, chibouks, tobacco boxes and bags, different forms of lighters and everything else that was used while smoking, became an integral part of all cultures. Most of these objects lost their everyday use in the mid 20th century, and today, they are just dear personal memorabilia of exhibits in museum collections. As silent witnesses of past centuries, they tell their story about simplicity, vanity, craftsmanship and art. In Serbia, there are few written documents about growing tobacco and smoking. Fortunately, museums saved objects used for processing tobacco and smoking, and their collections enable us to throw light on this important aspect of everyday life in previous centuries.
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Collection autumn/winter 1867
- Serbian collection from Russian Ethnographic museum in Sent Petersburg Ethnographic museum in Belgrade 6th December 2005 – 6th march 2006. Authors: Vilma Niškanović (Ethnographic museum in Belgrade) Olga Krpova (Russian Ethnographic museum) Natalia Prokopjeva (Russian Ethnographic museum) |
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| Serbian collection of
the Russian Ethnographic Museum presents the most important collection
of the traditional Serbian culture artefacts out of Serbia. It is based
in the most significant manner upon the objects collected and presented
at the Moscow Exhibition in 1867. This is the very first time that this collection is being presented in Serbia, so we aim to highlight its importance by the efforts based on researching the original artefacts – the sets of garments and the single clothing - then the written documentary material from the Russian Ethnographic Museum, and also the material from Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, as well the documents from the Serbian archives. |
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Traditional vessels Author: Zoran Rodić collaborator: Miloš Matić Ethnographic musem in Belgrade, 2004 |
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| Dishes and vessels are among the oldest material products of culture. In the beginning, they were made of meager materials and simple techniques while their use was limited only to holding or carying basic food. With time, these object developed so that they appeared in increasing quantities of form and purpose with changes reflected in bouth the use of new materials and more advance workmanship. Decoration also appeared, at first with the simplest of patterns but later more sophisticated so that some specimens can be renked among significant examples of folk art. At the same time, however, some primitive forms such as the simple dish made of the bark of a tree, the ''lub'', are still in use. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bridal jewelery
among Serbs in the XIX and first half of the XX century Author: Jelena Tešić Ethnographic museum in Belgrade, 2003 |
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| As part of the complex ceremony
prevailing at weddings, wich embrace three phases and three statuses,
bridal jewelery undoubtedly assumes a significant place. An analysis of
its function indicates that this jewelery has three characteristics: to
mark the status, namely the marriag state, the economic power and
protection. The ritual status of the bride and groom in the wedding ceremony largely stimmed from the belief that during the transitional moment the impact of evil forces was heightened and that the couple were very susceptible to spells. For this reason, an important part of the wedding ritual was the complex sistem of protection of the bride and groom in which jewelery holds a significant place. Protection from the evil eye, especially the first one which is the most dangerous and most be averted from the bride, was achived by the use of various materials. Supernatural powers were attributed to gold, silver, precious or semiprecious stones. |
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Weapons on the soil of Serbia
throughout the ages Author: Ph. D. Sofija Kostić Ethnographic museum in Belgrade, 2003 |
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| Throughout mankinds history the first tools were created together with the first weapons. In pre-historic times these weapons were made of bones and stone and, subsequently, of copper, bronze and finally of iron. The iron was tempered into steel whose perfectioning was not halted as time went on. Weapons are classed as cold or hot. Of the cold weapons there are the cutting ones, piercing ones, striking ones then the offensive weapons operating from a specific distance. Firearms comprise cannons, rifles, shotguns, guns and pistols. The oldest types of weapons are in source such as archealogical finds or frescos and other paintings as well as in written sources. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Zdravo svanuli,
wake up in good health, towel in traditional life of Serbia Author: Irena Fileki Ethnographic museum in Belgrade, 2002 |
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| In Serbian tradition a towel occupied a very important place and was generally known as an object used daily in every household, as a metaphor and symbol at wedding and funeral customs, a valuable object to be presented, exchanged and used as an imported part of house decoration. Particular role of towel and significance attributed to it is supported by the fact that it is kept in use till today. Collection of towels of Ethnographic museum in Belgrade founded in 1901 contains over 1000 towel from all parts of ex-Yugoslavia and this exhibition presents the most valuable items from Serbia. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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