Moesgaard Museum’s ethnographic collections boasts a great number of fantastical footwear from all over the world! Many of these beautiful shoes have been featured in great numbers on ethnographica, and soon even more – more than 230 different pairs of shoes to be exact – […]
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Post card from Lyon: Behind the scenes of a museum loan
Last week, I told you how two of our artefacts, a gandao and a gundurik from Kalash, made the journey to Musée des Confluences in Lyon. Today, I thought I would give you a bit of a ‘behind the scenes’ view of what such a […]
The price of a normal life: Rubber dinghy
“The boat we sailed in was smaller than this”, she says. I am standing in the new special exhibition ‘After the Escape – Syrian lives on Samsø’ about an hour before it is to open, and I am talking to an 8 year-old girl. We […]
Can a garden gate be the symbol of a subculture?
This week, we have invited one of the anthropology students who have created the special exhibition ‘In motion: A different take on nomads’ to write a blog about the exhibition. Last week, you could read about fieldwork. This week, Simone Hasse Stavnsbo writes about fieldwork […]
Field-what kind of work?
The next two weeks, we have invited some of the anthropology students who have created the special exhibition ‘In Motion: A different take on nomads’ to write a blog about their exhibition. This week, Pernille Bertram-Larsen writes about fieldwork and about her group’s exhibition ‘Nomads […]
Bones, skin, and silver: Tantric ritual artefacts
Let’s not beat around the bush. If I say ‘Tantric’, I know what you’ll all think. Something about very gymnastic and prolonged sexy times. Perhaps involving the singer Sting and some incense. As if that is not interesting enough in itself, I am here to […]
The unstoppable horde: How the Mongolian recurve bow created the greatest empire ever
I am imagining it was something akin to the famous ‘Loot Train Attack’ from the latest season of Game of Thrones, where the Dothraki army annihilated the small Lannister force, protecting their wagons filled with gold… First the rumble of hooves like distant thunder. The […]
Getting ready for ‘On the steppes of Genghis Khan – Mongolia’s nomads’
Today is the day! Guests from near and far will, in a few hours, show up at Moesgaard Museum to attend the official opening of the new special exhibition ‘On the steppes of Genghis Khan – Mongolia’s nomads’ – tomorrow it is the turn of […]
Baby nomads: Mongolian child saddle
How do you transport your baby, when you are always on the move, and your mode of transport of a horse or a reindeer? Next week, the new big special exhibition ‘On the steppes of Genghis Khan – Mongolia’s nomads’ opens at Moesgaard Museum. The […]
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 […]
Meeting your ancestors: Two young men, one hundred years apart
Do you know that strange realisation you have, when you see old pictures of your grandparents, or even great grandparents? And you realise that they too were young once; that they had this whole life that you know very little about? And that their world […]
Order and Chaos: Building an exhibition
Do you know what one of my favourite things about working at a museum is? It is sneaking into the new exhibitions as they are being constructed… Somehow, it seems impossible that they will ever be ready in time; that the half-finished sets will ever […]
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