L'exposició es compon d’un total de 89 obres realitzades entre els anys 70 i les primeres dècades dels anys 80 del segle XX. El material s'ha organitzat en cinc apartats: barri xinés, gitanos, el rastre, Sant Esteve i altres.
 
En l’apartat dedicat al barri xinés es mostren imatges captades de la quotidianitat d'aquest singular ambient dels anys 70, totes elles realitzades amb un enquadrament perfecte, on el fotògraf, dissimuladament, fotografiava les diferents escenes. D’altra banda, les instantànies relatives a l’ètnia gitana constitueixen retrats des d'una confiança que permet plasmar la mirada d'un poble que volia recordar les seues arrels. El rastre, el qual roman fotografiat quan encara aquest s’ubicava en la plaça de Nàpols i Sicília, mostra persones retratades de forma directa, una vegada més amb la confiança que el fotògraf establia amb el personatge. En l'apartat dedicat a la plaça de Sant Esteve es barregen els jocs infantils, la pobresa i l'activitat d'una joventut que jugava a ser major. L'exposició es tanca amb un apartat general sobre València, on es capten moments fugaços emmarcats dintre una composició impecable.

Joaquín Collado va nàixer a València en 1930 i s'inicià en la fotografia de forma autodidacta en 1965. Aquest ex treballador de banca cultivava durant el seu temps lliure la seua afició de fotografiar persones, personatges i enclavaments de la ciutat. La seua mirada respecte de la vida urbana és una barreja d'immediatesa, fugacitat, cerca de l'instant òptim i enquadrament perfecte. La mostra, comissariada per Luis Carrasco Llopis, compta amb el suport d’AGFOVAL (l'Agrupación Fotográfica Valenciana) i el Círculo Collado.
 

"Sustainability. Museus km 0" is a collective exhibition that wants to show, and also claim, how some concepts and mechanisms of sustainable management that claim contemporaneity live in the traditional knowledge that ethnological museums keep. Knowing that, many times, today's society has forgotten them and that they can be considered beyond nostalgia and their heritage significance. Repair, reuse, exchange, share and collaborate are not our concepts.

Beyond the content, the exhibition is interesting as a project of joint work between museums, with all that this means. Coordinating an appointed group, covering the different rhythms and reaching consensus among diverse approaches has been a long and laborious process, but it has been more than compensated by the experience we have gained and by the demonstration that we are capable of doing things together.

This joint work has been done within the framework of ETNOXARXA, a project of collaboration and interconnection between local ethnological museums in the province of Valencia.

The second selected experience can be found in the room HORTA I MARJAL: THE IMAGINARIES, where the final part is dedicated to food, specifically to the dish that represents the imaginary for the excellence of our territory, which has already become a global icon: Paella.

L' ETNO has collaborated with the photographer Ricardo Cases in the publication of the second edition of his work "Paellas y Coches", available in the museum shop. Accompanying the publication, we will be able to enjoy this original photographic series in the permanent rooms of the museum for a few months, in dialogue with the story of the permanent exhibition.

Nowadays it is not unusual to see paellas in the most unexpected places. In today's dynamic world, in which haste and lack of time threaten some classic social rituals related to food, Valencians have found solutions. With the good weather, our roads are filled with frying pans travelling in cars on their way to all kinds of homes. This photographic work was born in the restaurant L'Alter in Picassent (Horta Sud) which cooks more than 80 paellas a day to take away during the summer months. Ricardo Cases presents these motorised still lifes, where he explores new visual imaginaries around the representation of paella.

The first selected experience is to be found in the CITY: LOCAL AND GLOBAL room, where the final part is dedicated to the walls of the city, a space for reflection on the urbanism that surrounds us in cities. The physical walls and the invisible walls towards other social strata, as well as a space for political, commercial and artistic communication.

We present LOVE ON THE OUTSKIRTS, where the urban artist and photographer Pedro Mecinas and Lucia Gimeno document photographically during their urban explorations a collection of spontaneous graffiti with messages of love scattered around the city, suburbs and villages of Valencia. Like all archives, it is still in process, open and expanding to other territories in the embers of Pedro and Lucia's travels. Together, they continue to document this collection of emotions that you can follow on their instagram account @amordeextraradi.

In the words of the authors "how intense what you are feeling must be to have to leave it written on any surface without knowing if anyone will ever read you, understand you and feel anything. Without knowing what story is behind it".

City walls are also used as a form of romantic and sentimental communication. Documentary remnants of affection, break-ups, desires, dreams, disappointments and sufferings that instantly connect with all the anonymous people who look at them. An explosion of the private personal world in the public space that reminds us that shared emotions are also part of what binds us together as a society.

Treasures with history is a programme that the Valencian Public Television À Punt has been broadcasting successfully for the last three seasons. It deals with the objects that people keep as precious material, as an emotional treasure full of experiences and memories. It is a well-known fact that objects have the capacity to establish emotional connections with people, and the complexity of this relationship is the subject of Treasures with history. L'ETNO now brings you closer to this universe of objects that from history, ethnology or art have built part of our memory as a people over the last 200 years. 

Produced in collaboration with the Valencian Institute of Culture, Treasures with History 2 is an exhibition organised by L'ETNO to show the public the more than one hundred treasures selected for the programme.

Treasures with history is a programme that the Valencian Public Television À Punt has been broadcasting successfully for the last three seasons. It deals with the objects that people keep as precious material, as an emotional treasure full of experiences and memories. It is a well-known fact that objects have the capacity to establish emotional connections with people, and the complexity of this relationship is the subject of Treasures with history. L'ETNO now brings you closer to this universe of objects that from history, ethnology or art have built part of our memory as a people over the last 200 years. 

Produced in collaboration with the Valencian Institute of Culture, Treasures with History 2 is an exhibition organised by L'ETNO to show the public the more than one hundred treasures selected for the programme.

Once again this year, the Espanta la por campaign is here to vindicate our fantastic imagination with activities of all kinds, both for adults and for children. And as every year for the last eight years, we are not alone, we are accompanied by many local ethnological museums, libraries and Valencian schools!

This year we have something new: as well as being in the real world, we have also entered the world of podcasts. Espanta la por 2023 is the birth of The names of fear, the first podcast of L'ETNO in which we will reflect on the fears of adults, the fears of Valencian people, and we will be accompanied by Valencian podcasters on this four-programme journey, in Valencian, to talk about monsters, legends, literature, death... You are invited to the recording of some of the programmes, but please let us know that you are coming, lest you don't leave room for monsters and imagination!

Of course, we will also enjoy many activities in the "real world", which we are sure you will like very much. Come and have a great time in our space to scare the fear away!

Check out the programme!

Once again this year, the Espanta la por campaign is here to release our fantastic imagination with activities of all kinds, both for adults and for children. And as every year for the last eight years, we are not alone, we are accompanied by many local ethnological museums, libraries and Valencian schools!

This year we have something new: as well as being in the real world, we have also entered the world of podcasts. Espanta la por 2023 is the birth of The names of fear, the first podcast of L'ETNO in which we will reflect on the fears of adults, the fears of Valencian people, and we will be accompanied by Valencian podcasters on this four-programme journey, in Valencian, to talk about monsters, legends, literature, death... You are invited to the recording of some of the programmes, but please let us know that you are coming, lest you don't leave room for monsters and imagination!

Of course, we will also enjoy many activities in the "real world", which we are sure you will like very much. Come and have a great time in our space to scare the fear away!

Check out the programme!

La Zafiriña Company - La Rambleta (in collaboration with Escalante Centre Teatral).

Author: Mafalda Bellido.

Year: 2018

Synopsis: Los que comen tierra is a text by Mafalda Bellido that arises from the I Laboratorio Ínsula Dramataria Josep Lluis Sirera, promoted by the Instituto Valenciano de Cultura.

Directed by Sergio Serrano, the play aims to give a voice to those who have no voice, to the dead of our recent history, to the thousands executed by the Franco regime who are still buried in the ditches and on the roads of our country. It is also a tribute to the families of these victims, who are fighting for dignity and reparation for the memory of their ancestors. These unopened graves are the thousands of unhealed wounds that we still have to rehabilitate in a country that is obstinate in making a tabula rasa of its most recent past.

A dry stone wall. A dry-stone bank that is on a road. A road that could be any road. One of our roads. One of our roads. One of our stories. Our story.

Cast: Mafalda Bellido Monterde, Lola López, Ernesto Pastor, Begoña Tena, Jorge Valle

There will be only two performances:

• The one on the 26th will be for all audiences.
• The one on the 27th will be for schoolchildren.