Sunday, 1 February 2015

National Museum of Ethnography in Warsaw

Państwowe Muzeum Etnograficzne w Warszawie (National Museum of Ethnography in Warsaw)
Its collection is made up of objects, folk art, costumes, crafts, sculptures, paintings and other art from Poland, Europe and remaining continents. The museum has a permanent exhibition and a lot of temporary exhibitions, a library (around 26 000 volumes), a Photographic and Film Records Studio and a Central Repository for the Museum's Collections.

The permanent exhibition presented inside the museum includes:
• The Flight. Asian Magical Weapons,
• Africa,
• Australia and Oceania,
• Polish Folk Art Gallery,
• Folk Handicraft,
• Polish Annual Rites.

The Polish collection is composed of around 13500 exhibits in the permanent collection and over 1000 in the deposits.
The African collection is the richest collection in the museum with over ten thousand objects mainly from Sub-Saharan Africa. The African collection includes costumes and clothing, jewelry, royal insignia, sculptures, masks and objects related to religious practices. According to the museum, one of the most important objects of the African collection are helmet masks made by the East African Makonde tribe (Tanzania, Mozambique).


http://ethnomuseum.website.pl/en/
Ania :)

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