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27: 136:; It is a close partner of the Valencian Association of Anthropology (AVA) and works hand to hand with the university community. Among the museum research projects, the Valencian Oral Memory Project stands out. This project started by the museum staff in the early 2000s, has been, and still is, collecting oral memory from informers in communities all along the Valencian territory. Today, this project is one of the most important oral memory databases referring to a mediterranean culture and it is an essential research tool for scholars interested in sociology, anthropology, contemporary history and Catalan/valencian language. An important part of the interviews can be seen in the web site: 117:), that show a summary of the many aspects of popular and traditional valencian culture. In this center, the museum offers its programme of temporary exhibitions that revise topics related to the museum mission. Along with temporary and permanent exhibitions, an intense activity of cultural events as educational workshops for children and families, seminars, film sessions, music performances and guided visits by the museum staff, are also part of the museum everyday life. Most of these are activities relate to traditional and popular culture and often bring multicultural perspectives, helping the museum to engage with its surrounding community at the city of València. 86:
and sharing their knowledge in villages and cities in the area in close collaboration with cultural associations are individuals. The museum has developed a close relationships with many smaller museums across the territory with the aim of helping local communities access to quality cultural events, or else, broadcast their views, knowledge and identities through closely related cultural institutions.
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The objectual collection of the museum has key examples of objects relating to traditional farming and everyday life in the area. After the initial effort to gather rural based material culture, the museum staff moved also into urban origin items. In later years collection policies have broaden to
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As an institution rooted within the city of Valencian and the region of Valencia, the museum is constantly engaged in working with different communities along this territorial framework. Traveling exhibitions and workshops are part of its day-to-day activity; museum curators are constantly learning
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related to traditional and popular Valencian culture. The mission underlines that the museum also aims to permanently question fundamental aspects of the culture, as the dynamics that built it and force it to evolve, as well as its diversity. Although fundamentally devoted to Valencian cultural
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with material from the Congo/Zaire area) belongs to other geographical areas. In the last few years the section of the museum related to clothing has been increased greatly. The arrival of the Casa Insa collection, mainly conformed by theater and festivals customs reflecting most of the 20th
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and the political transition of the late 1970s and early 1980s witnessed the re-emergency of culturally distinct identities within the Spanish state. As part of this wave, and somehow revitalizing some other historical attempts, the Valencian Museum of Ethnology was originally impulsed by
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The museum finally opened its doors in 1983 with four staff members. Among its initials goals was to build up an ethnographic collection referring to valencian traditional culture and in particular that part of it related to rural areas and activities, already then, in a clear process of
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identity within a Mediterranean context, this museum also works to give visitors the chance to understand the challenges and dynamics of culture as a whole and from a contemporary perspective.
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disappearance. In a few years an interesting collection in agrarian technology was gathered constituting the core collection of the museum that has been enlarged in later years.
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and document centre (including a photographic archive) specialised in ethnology and anthropology. The facilities of the museum include the former psychiatric hospital of
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allow the arrival of more contemporary, significant items related to popular culture. Most of the objects are of a valencian origin, only a small amount (as the
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Martínez, R. (2006) A la recerca del museu identitari. In Revista Valenciana d’Etnologia, nº1. Pp: Museu Valencià d’Etnologia, Diputació de València. Valencia.
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At its site in the Centre Cultural la Beneficència in València city, the museum has a permanent exhibit presented in three sections:
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century, and still being processed by the museum staff, represents an important quality impact on the museum collection.
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They also have a collaboration programme with 20 local museums.
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Valencia
intangible heritage
Franco's dictatorship
Joan Francesc Mira
Market gardens
marshes
drylands
mountains
museum
public education
ethnology
anthropology
www.museudelaparaula.es
library
Bétera
Carsi Collection



Seguí 2015
Seguí 2015
Museu Valencià d'Etnologia 2011
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"Más de 20 museos etnológicos valencianos se unirán en una red de cooperación"
La Vanguardia
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9788493834760
OCLC
804825620

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