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The
Museum gathers together the material exhibited in
Rome in 1911 in the range of the Italian Ethnographic
Exhibition organized for the fiftieth anniversary
of the Unity of Italy by ethnologist Lamberto
Loria who had carried out studies amongst non-European
populations.
When
the researcher died in 1913, after several transfers,
the collections were finally arranged in a centre
in the EUR area with its current name in 1956.
The
museum tour unwinds through numerous sections divided
by theme and in which a selection of over a hundred
thousand documents relating to Italian traditional
culture is exhibited, most of it attributable to
a period between the XVIII century and the beginning
of the XX century.
The following
are brief examples of the collections displayed
in the museum: the room on the ground
floor features several means of transport used by man
(carts, sledges, trigger) while
other rooms illustrate work in the fields using numerous
tools such as ploughs, scythes, spades
and the productive cycles of grain, grapes,
olives and hemp are also documented.
The following
sections are dedicated to sheep-farming (breeding,
milking, the productive cycle of milk,
the clothes of a shepherd etc.), to hunting
(weapons, traps, bird calls,
cages, nets, sailboat models
and plastic models of boats, etc).
The
section dedicated to work and domestic
space presents furniture and objects
from various regions, like kneading troughs
for bread, fireplace accessories, containers
for the preparation and preservation of food,
chests for equipment, beds, wardrobes,
etc.
The
main religious festivals, the ceremonies of the
yearly cycle and those relating to the magical-religious
beliefs of the different regions, a re-illustrated
through the exhibition of a Neapolitan crθche in eighteenth-century
style, of numerous photographs and Carnival
masks, while- among the different expressions linked
to annual and religious festivals - the collection features
stockings for Epiphany, dolls for Lent,
objects regarding the Holy Week, the
collections of pictorial and anatomic votive
offerings, ceramics, paintings and a few
reproductions of processional carts like the
one of S. Rosalia in Palermo, the Tower
of S. Rosa in Viterbo, the Candles of
Gubbio, etc.
The
cycle of human life is represented in a section
exhibiting objects relating to the various phases of
a person's development, while popular traditions are
exhibited according to a rotation rule accordingto the
region they belong to.
The
collection of
jewellery
deserves a special mention because of its variety and
the importance of the examples including earrings,
necklaces, rings, accompanied by many
photographs belonging to the historical-photographic
archive of the Museum.
The
section dedicated to the theatre and popular
shows exhibits Sicilian puppets and the
marionettes of the Roman theatre, along with
to bills of story-tellers and games held
in the public squares, while the masks of
commedia dell'arte and musical instruments
(wind, stringed, percussion instruments)
are displayed in special rooms.
Information
and Addresses
Address
Piazza Guglielmo Marconi, 8/10
Visiting
Hours Tuesday to Friday from 9.00 am to 400 pm;
Saturday and Sunday from 9.00 am to 8.00 pm (Jul. -
Aug. from 9.00 am to 400 pm). Advance booking: 6.00
pm - 8.00pm.
The ticket
office closes half an hour before the scheduled closing
time Closed Monday, Dec. 25,Jan.1
Telephone
06 5926148 - 591°7°9 - 5912669; Fax 06 5911848
Price
4,00;concessions 2,00
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