Category Archives: Handicrafts

Knives and Sword, China Sword and Scissors Museum

Knives are one of the oldest tools of mankind. For humans without carapace, claws and sharp tips, to survive in the jungle world of the jungle, the knife is their most important helper. The acquisition of food, the manufacture of utensils, and the maintenance of life are all inseparable from…

Knives and Sword, China Sword and Scissors Museum

Masterworks Of Himalayan Art, Rubin Museum of Art

Masterworks, a regularly changing exhibition at the Rubin, explores major strands in the development of Himalayan art, covering a period of over one thousand years, and presents regional artistic traditions in their broad cultural, geographic, historical, and stylistic contexts. The exhibition draws primarily from the Rubin collection. Masterworks is organized…

Masterworks Of Himalayan Art, Rubin Museum of Art

Gateway To Himalayan Art, Rubin Museum of Art

Gateway to Himalayan Art introduces visitors to the main forms, concepts, and meanings of Himalayan art represented in our collection. A large multimedia map orients the visitors and highlights cultural regions of a diverse Himalayan cultural sphere that includes parts of present day India, China, Nepal, Bhutan, and Mongolia. Visitors…

Gateway To Himalayan Art, Rubin Museum of Art

Celebration Time in Polish and European Folklore, Warsaw National Ethnographic Museum

Visit a glass showroom with folk costumes, a story about rituals, traditions, and objects that belong to different traditions and denominations in Poland and Europe takes up over 850 m² and it is told through thousands of exhibits. The exhibition’s style is very modern and resembles a shopping centre –…

Celebration Time in Polish and European Folklore, Warsaw National Ethnographic Museum

Biblia Pauperum, Warsaw National Ethnographic Museum

The peasants’ interpretation of the Bible and their unique perspective of the world gives very creative results. Visitors to the exhibitions will learn why it rains when you kill a spider, why swallows have red feathers on their heads, or why the stork eats frogs. Those beliefs and also religious…

Biblia Pauperum, Warsaw National Ethnographic Museum

The Order of Things, Warsaw National Ethnographic Museum

“The Order of Things. The storeroom of Piotr B. Szacki” is a exhibition in the form of a museum magazine with the accompaniment of multimedia, exhibits related to crafts (tools in the field of obtaining and processing food, breeding, etc.). The objects are arranged according to the author’s classification of…

The Order of Things, Warsaw National Ethnographic Museum

Ordinary – Extraordinary, Warsaw National Ethnographic Museum

“Ordinary – Extraordinary: The Ethnographic Museum’s Fascinating Collections” is The Museum’s exhibition for 120th anniversary. The exhibition presents academically and artistically most valuable objects from the Museum’s collection and the process of introducing them into the collection. The exhibition’s classic form leads us through the 120 years of the Museum’s…

Ordinary – Extraordinary, Warsaw National Ethnographic Museum

Western Rooms of the White Column Hall, Faberge Museum in St. Petersburg

Palace of the Naryshkins-Shuvalovs is a unique historical monument to the reign and personal life of Alexander III and Nicholas II. Easter jewelry is located in the blue living room of the palace. Other halls also display collections of 19th-century Russian porcelain, enamels, stone-cutting products, Russian icons, paintings, silver, precious…

Western Rooms of the White Column Hall, Faberge Museum in St. Petersburg

Northern Rooms of the Grand Staircase, Faberge Museum in St. Petersburg

Faberge Museum’s collection has more than 4,000 items, among which, in addition to the famous Easter eggs, are fantasy items, silverware, interior and religious items, as well as jewelry created by Faberge. Also in the museum’s collection are works by contemporaries and rivals of Faberge — masters of jewelry I.…

Northern Rooms of the Grand Staircase, Faberge Museum in St. Petersburg

Southern Rooms of the Grand Staircase, Faberge Museum in St. Petersburg

Palace of the Naryshkins-Shuvalovs is the first private museum in Russia on a federal scale. Easter jewelry is located in the blue living room of the palace. Other halls also display collections of 19th-century Russian porcelain, enamels, stone-cutting products, Russian icons, paintings, silver, precious utensils and memorial items. Grand Staircase…

Southern Rooms of the Grand Staircase, Faberge Museum in St. Petersburg

Russian Imperial Easter Eggs Collection, Faberge Museum in St. Petersburg

The central hall of the Shuvalov Palace contains the Imperial Easter Eggs and surprises made for the last of the Romanovs – the Emperors Alexander III and Nicholas II. These remarkable works each tell their own unique story and made Fabergé a world-renowned brand. Easter Eggs by Carl Faberge Faberge…

Russian Imperial Easter Eggs Collection, Faberge Museum in St. Petersburg

Whang Chongnye Placid Dynamism, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Gwacheon

Whang Chongnye Placid Dynamism is an exhibition of Korean contemporary artist series in craft department which was organized by National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea in order to make foundation for modern art history research in Korea. This exhibition is an overall view on oeuvres of Whang Chongnye(1927~),…

Whang Chongnye Placid Dynamism, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Gwacheon

Miniature Collection, Nationalmuseum

The National Museum’s collection of miniatures amounts to approximately 5,200 numbers. The works in the collection have many different origins, not least among different royalty, but of particular importance are two donations and a large number of acquisitions made recently. The donations were made by Carl Fredrik Dahlgren in 1894…

Miniature Collection, Nationalmuseum

In New Light, Nationalmuseum

Since the National Museum was inaugurated, the exhibition areas have been reduced and windows have been reopened. The largest visible change in the renovation means that a large part of the museum’s 331 windows, which have previously been closed to protect the art from harmful daylight, will be reopened. The…

In New Light, Nationalmuseum

Sweden Design Collection, Nationalmuseum

14-18th century Sweden Design Collection include ceramics, glass, metal and stone objects, sculpture collection, arts and crafts collection. The museum’s collection of applied art, design and industrial design spans over a long period, from the 14th century to today. It consists of ca. 30,000 objects of which a third are…

Sweden Design Collection, Nationalmuseum

HiSoUR – Hi So You Are

Hisour – History+Tour. Virtual Tour, Artwork Exhibition, Discovery History, Global Cultural Online.