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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