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The Museum of the Romanian Peasant was founded in 1990 succeeding the Museum of Ethnography and Popular Art, abolished by the authorities in 1978. The museum's goal is to present rural people and their environment as they are now and were in the past, avoiding the idealized peasant clichés portrayed during the Communist regime. The museum's national treasures include some 90,000 objects (the oldest dating from the middle of the 18th century), grouped in the following collections: pottery, costumes, interior decoration (wool and vegetable fibre), tools and wood and iron furniture, liturgical objects (icons painted on wood and under glass, crucifixes and other religious objects) as well as objects from other ethnic groups. An anthropological research department (including a section on visual anthropology and another on ethnomusicology) studies various aspects of rural life and its spread to cities. In 1996, the Museum of the Romanian Peasant was awarded the EMYA prize for the best European museum of the year. |
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