ABOUT COLLECTION

Zbirka pitanje 1

HOW DID THE MUSEUM COLLECTION OF FURNITURE DEVELOP?

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The Furniture Collection began to take shape and develop as soon as the museum was founded in 1919. Assembled in the collection are items that embody high aesthetic and artistic qualities,...
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WHERE AND HOW WERE THE ITEMS FROM THE FURNITURE COLLECTION DISPLAYED?

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The significance of objects depends not only on their perception during the course of time, but also on the manner in which we look at and display them. Objects are not only shown as objects,...
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WHO MADE THE FURNITURE?

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Aleksandra Muraj (Muraj 1998: 83), speaking of the handicraft skills of the Croatian peasantry at the end of the 19th and in the early 20th century, pointed out the differences in the manner of producing objects and their purposes in the light...
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WHAT IS THE SYMBOLISM OF THE OBJECTS?

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Since furniture was considered a decorative object for every home, particular attention was paid to locating the object in the room, so that the decorated side should be facing in such a way .....
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HOW WAS THE NATIONAL STYLE MANIFESTED IN THE MAKING OF FURNITURE?

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The practices of different Central European and indeed Western European nations have shown that the concept of vernacular or folk art was hard to define in a simple tale since in the 19th century....
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WHICH ART STYLES INFLUENCED THE DEVELOPMENT OF FURNITURE?

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The impact of styles of high or elite art on some manifestations of folk art was discovered later by certain ethnologists; by Vitomir Belaj, for example, ...
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  • Text and catalogue entries by: Zvjezdana Antoš, PhD, museum adviser
  • Photographs: Goran Vranić, Nina Koydl, Petar Strmečki, Ethnographic Museum's Photo Archive
  • Web design and development: Viola Šebalj
  • Subediting and proofing: Andrea Rožić
  • English translation: Graham McMaster, PhD
  • For the publisher: Goranka Horjan, PhD, museum adviser

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  • The exhibition was financed by the Ministry of Culture and Media, Republic of Croatia, City of Zagreb - City Office for Culture, International Relations and Civil Society