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“People of Solid Water”
On October 16th the exhibition from Russian Ethnographic Museum in the exhibition building “Packgaus”will be opened.
“People of Solid Water” Exhibition presents a unique culture of North-East Siberia, the farthest territory of our country. “People of Solid Water” Exhibition presents a unique culture of North-East Siberia, the farthest territory of our country. Since the ancient time sea hunt has been a basis of people’s life in this region difficult of access and severe climate. It influenced not only the whole life support system (habitation, clothes, utensils, means of conveyance and food) and world-view, but also spiritual culture of the Chukchi Peninsula, Kamchatka and the Aleutian.
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The exhibition works till November 10.
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04.12.2009 - 02.03.2010. Tundra and Sea
The exhibition "Tundra and Sea" opens for visitors peculiar window to the world of arctic hunters and reindeer breeders of Chukotka Peninsula - the severe and beautiful land of our country.
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22.10.2009 - January 2010. Adygei`s traditional costume.
Russian Museum of Ethnography offer to esteem in proper degree the examples of modern Adygeis women's costumes, created by Madina Saralp. This exhibition correspond to ethnic cultural patterns and capricious demands of contemporary urban fashion.
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Our garments are the best
The exhibition under the title "Our garments are the best" familiarizes the visitors with the traditional costume of some villages of the Skopskiy and Miloslavskiy regions of Ryazanskaya oblast from the end of the 19th century to the present.
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Journey to Other Worlds: Shamanism among the Siberian Peoples
The exhibition Journey to Other Worlds: Shamanism among the Siberian Peoples, to open in the Russian Museum of Ethnography, reflects a unique phenomenon in the traditional beliefs and practices among peoples of the Extreme North, Siberia, and the Far East - shamanism.
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From the waist to heels
The exhibition "From the waist to the heels" presented the unique collection of the Skirts and trousers from the Russian museum of Ethnography. The great influence on such kind of clothes had the peoples' world outlook, norms of the traditional ethic and inhabitants' aesthetic style which changed in result of social and economic reforms, trade and cultural contacts with the other peoples. Skirts and trousers, which were existed in different forms all over Russian, have various cut and decoration. Also these parts of the costume were original semiotic mark and accomplished practical, aesthetic and ethno- differentiate function; in the festival set it also has a protective function.
Clothes both for female and male which are shown at the exposition, present the variety of different examples of skirts and trousers from the elementarily types of functional direction to marking status, social and age-rating characteristic of the cloth-owner. Such variability allows showing a human as a representative of the specific society, a human who keeps certain place and who has a specific skill of decoration of his or her clothes. The objects at the exhibition demonstrate the ethnic variety and craftsmanship of the master and still they are the source of inspiration for modern designers.
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The world of measurements in the traditional culture.
An exhibition under the title "The world of measurements in the traditional culture" was opened in the Russian Museum of Ethnography. The exhibition shows the visitors the variety of the equipment for measuring which were used by peoples that lived on the territory of Eurasia.
It also presents the basis of the traditional metrology - following the necessities of life, people used most available things for measuring from the objects from everyday life to the body of the person who measured.
In different parts of the world people used similar measuring materials, the biggest part of them are shown at the exhibition. There are linear measures and trade measures, fiscal measures and original peasant`s measures. The museum collection allows showing almost whole set of capacity - liquid measures, measures for gathering the harvest and the collection of the herdsman and earthen measures.
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Two Dvinas: People and Time
This exhibition presents facsimiles of the rare photographs from the unique collection of the First All-Russian Ethnographical exhibition in Moscow in 1867 and also photographers, and collectors of the Dashkovskiyi museum of Ethnography and Ethnographical department of the Russian museum in the beginning of the XXth century. Now all these photographs are kept in The Russian museum of Ethnography. Visitors are able to see positive photos, photo-post cards from the photo studio of Riga "Gebensperherr & K?" and from the press of Emmanuel von Eggert, collector V.I. Sizov, connoisseur and popularizer of the Lettish traditional art, painter and museum correspondent Richard Sarinsch and also photographer who worked in the Russian North Jacob Leizinherr and collector from St-Petersburg A.N. Pavlovich.
The Exhibition was first shown in Riga in 2008. We considered it important to show its new version in Russia too. We hope that such an unusual way of comparison of two people's way of life will make it possible for visitors of the XXIst century to open something new and in keeping with today.
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