and this is the result!

..we finished the job in room 5..it looks so much wider!!..as it was originally..we belive now it has been a good decision..it will imporve the museographic possibilities ..wait and see how it gets transformed!

could we enlarge room 5??

...while working in room 6...designers asked if there was the possibility of enlarging room 5 by removing wood panels on both sides, these have been used to cover windows and as exhbition areas so far...we doubted because of the money factor..they inisited it was a permanent exhibit!!!...finally we decided to give green light..and there we go!!...look at the pictures to see how it went..it looks as a total mess..but we will win a meter of space for the exhibit in that area!!

beginning works at room 6

...last month of octuber..finally we began works in room 6; "horta i marjal" will take rooms 5 and 6 at the building...first jobs were reinforce panels to be able to subject a big glass box!!...that will run from part to part over the west wall......it took several days replacing old wood panels by new ones -the pictures show room 6 and how we loaded them from the courdyard...thanks Ferrer brothers!!!...so much work and still have not get to the objects time!

more photos of LA CIUTAT VISCUDA

....here are a few more pictures of la ciutat viscuda...we thought this just five years ago!!!..for the Horta and Marjal part we want to introduce some museographic changes...this is the advantatge in duing your permanent by parts..and not all in once...or perhaps no

what's already done?

..our presentation of valencian popular culture is based on geo-cultural areas: the cities, the irrigated and wet lands, the dry lands and mountaneous parts. Because of the cost of the whole project we decided to built the permanent rooms in three lenghs.

The one related to cities is already done, its called LA CIUTAT VISCUDA, and it was openned some five years ago..pictures show how it looks. After a break due to structural reasons, we are now prepare to develop the other two: one showing valencian culture as it developed in irrigated and wet lands, and the other one showing forms of culture at the dry lands and the mountains.

Contents of each part are structurated on four sections: the spaces (ELS ESPAIS); to live in (HABITAR); to work (TREBALLAR) and to live together (CONVIURE)...

hello from the valencian museum of ethnology

Hi..at the valencian museum of ethnology we are at work expanding our permanent rooms...we though some may be interested in knowing some of the problemas and solutions we will be facing in this process..this is the basic idea of this blog..so join us if you are interested and, please, excuse our english grammar!!