After a rather mild and wet winter, Denmark is gearing up for a couple of cold weeks. In the weather forecasts we have heard about a ‘Siberian wind’ coming from the East, bringing with it snow and freezing cold temperatures. To prepare ourselves, we have […]
Month: February 2018
Looking at the world – through a Fiat Maluch
Would you expect to see a car from the 1970s in a contemporary ethnographic exhibition? No? That, however, was what the museum guests could see in the newly re-opened Moesgaard Museum in 2014. A tiny blue Fiat Maluch displayed on a thick red carpet. What […]
In other shoes: Indonesian sandals
Here at The Ethnographic Collections, we have the most wonderful collection of shoes. They were collected by Søren Ludvig Tuxen, zoologist, and a bit of a shoe fetishist. Since the beginning of this blog, we have featured a wide selection of his shoes, from the […]
Meeting your ancestors: Gentilo and his forefathers
Last Friday, after some lovely speeches and a glass of bubbles, we were finally allowed to enter the new exhibition ‘Dialogues’ At Moesgaard Museum. In the darkened room, we were transported to dusty Central Australia, to icy Eastern Siberia, and to the lush rainforests of […]
