Exhibition related to the TV show "Tresors amb història".

This is the exhibition production linked to the TV show “Tresors amb Història”, broacasted by the Valencian Public Television, À Punt. The exhibition shows the selection of the one hundred objects that have been appearing during the broadcast of the program. The objects tell daily stories of Valencian men and women and are a sample of our history in the last century. With this project, L'ETNO proposes to reflect into the importance of material culture as a container of memory and an element capable of reflecting personal or collective identity.

TRESORS AMB HISTÒRIA has been produced by L'ETNO in collaboration with the Institut Valencià de Cultura, À Punt and the production companies Sunrise and El Terrat (The Mediapro Studio). It will remain open to the public until the 29th of May, and from June 15 it can be visited at the Museum of Fine Arts in the city of Castelló.
 

The main objective of this exhibition project is to offer a didactic and cross-sectional vision of the material culture of the Franco dictatorship. It proposes an analysis of the mechanisms that the dictatorship used to rewrite the history and acquire legitimacy.

The protagonists of the exhibition are the objects that allow to analyze the omnipresence of the symbols and slogans of a totalitarian regime in everyday life, in education at schools or in gender roles and private and public settings. The material culture of Francoism is a paradigmatic example of the policies of doctrine, censorship and repression that characterize the great machinery that the Francoist military regime will establish in Spain.

Twelve collections have been selected, grouped according to some of the most significant uses in the history of the medium: scientific photography in the ethnography section, institutional photography, photography by professionals, photography with a personal, documentary and informative ambition, and domestic and family photography, focusing on the social habits that impregnate the materiality of the photographic object. At the same time, the aim is to reflect on some ideas that cross the photographic medium, such as memory, the archive and an approach based on the context in which the images were created.
 
Photographs have been explained as proof and witness of the past, as an aesthetic expression of subjectivity and as a tool of representation, but also, as the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu points out, they are a process and a practice, a way of relating. 
 
En el recorrido planteado, cada colección nos muestra una visión particular y al tiempo dialoga con las otras. Cada una, desde su posición, va trenzando ese tejido compartido forma en forma de universo de imágenes que entendemos como memoria visual.

In order to make the experience of the visit or workshop as satisfactory and profitable as possible, it is recommended that the following indications be taken into account:
 

• Arrange your visit in advance by calling the indicated telephone numbers or sending an e-mail.
• Inform L'ETNO. Museu Valencià d'Etnologia in advance, of any changes or cancellations that may occur.
• Respect the timetables established when booking the visit. Failure to be punctual may be detrimental to other groups. 
• Groups, even when accompanied by a Museum monitor, must always be accompanied by the teacher or person in charge, who must ensure that the group is kept together.
• Photography is permitted (without flash only), except in those exhibitions where there is an express ban.
• The visit can be made in Spanish or Valencian.
• The centre has a library, cloakroom, shop and interior courtyards for lunch.
• If it is necessary for the group to write notes or jottings, the school material provided by the group, or material expressly ceded by L’ETNO. Museu Valencià d'Etnologia must be used. The equipment on display may not be used to take notes.
   

Loudly and freshly we will present the new story of the collection ESPANTA LA POR! that has as protagonist the Home dels nassos. You will meet its author, Miquel Puig and its graphic designer, Patricia Bolinches.

If you are a professional in the field of libraries, education, illustration, narration, if you are a student of design or teaching, if you are a bookseller, if you are a mother or father or if you have many noses, you are interested in all attending.

Un viatge divertit i ple d'aventures, alhora que un esforç per mantenir viu el bestiari popular valencià; el Butoni, l'Home del sac, la bruixa Pinta, el Banyeta i la Quarantamaula entre d'altres personatges ens portaran al món màgic dels espantacriatures.

Data: Diumenge, 8 de novembre:

Lloc: Pati V de L’ETNO

Hora: Dues sessions, 11:00 h i a les 12:45 h.

Organitza: SARC - Cultura Diputació de València

Aforament limitat

Accés gratuït amb entrada

PÚBLIC FAMILIAR

Durante casi 40 años Franco gobernó España con mano de hierro. Desde la victoria en abril de 1939 hasta su muerte el 20 de noviembre de 1975, el Caudillo dirigió un régimen totalitario de cariz nacionalcatolicista que, a pesar de sufrir sus crisis internas, mantuvo su esencia antidemocrática hasta el final.

En la actualidad, después de un período de Transición y de la proclamación de la Democracia (1978), vivimos un momento donde los nuevos valores y principios ciudadanos, así como los nuevos marcos legislativos favorecen el debate público para abordar el origen, el desarrollo y las consecuencias del Franquismo en la idiosincrasia de la España actual.

Los protagonistas de la exposición son los objetos que nos permiten analizar la omnipresència de los símbolos y las consignas de un régimen totalitario, nacido de un golpe de estado, en la vida cotidiana, en la educación en las escuelas o en los roles de género en los escenarios privados y públicos. La cultura material del franquismo se convierte en un ejemplo paradigmático de las políticas de adoctrinamiento, censura y represión que caracterizaron la gran maquinaria que el régimen militar franquista instauró en España.

El objetivo principal es ofrecer una visión didáctica y transversal de la cultura material del franquismo para dar a conocer, especialmente a las generaciones que ya han nacido en Democracia, los mecanismos que puso en marcha la dictadura para reescribir la historia de nuestro pasado más reciente y para legitimarse.

Presentation

L’ETNO promotes the project La caixa dels records. Memòries d'una vida from its collections, This  is a project based on reminiscence group therapy, an emotional stimulation technique. Through autobiographical memory, the evocation of personal memories and lived experiences is encouraged, reliving them in the present moment, which activates the evocation of pleasant emotions in the participants. 

To achieve this objective, resources and objects related to everyday life are used, which serve as memory eliciting keys. These objects are, for the most part taken form the collection of L'ETNO. Through this process, participants are able to reaffirm their self-knowledge and their own identity. It also encourages interpersonal relationships and the stimulation of the participants' cognitive abilities. 

Development of the activity

The group activity consists of three phases: 

• Prior contact with the reference centre to collect general autobiographical information about the group (professions, ages, origins, education levels, hobbies, etc.) and to present the most appropriate thematic unit of work. 
• The session. Meeting with the group in which we will encourage participation through evocation work with everyday objects related to the agreed thematic unit. The thematic unit is a work proposal for the sessions generated around a specific theme. In it, the most appropriate objects, photographs and resources for the development of the theme are selected. Possible thematic paths and related questions are also indicated, in order to arouse interest and positive emotions among the participants. The session is organised in different moments: presentation of the participants, exhibition of objects and photographs, evocation of memories, experiences and emotions, participation of all participants, introduction of related or collateral themes and approach to the present.
• Subsequent contact. Evaluation-report of the activity carried out with the reference centre to establish actions for improvement. The reference centre and the Museu Valencià d'Etnologia can arrange up to two successive sessions around the same thematic unit with the same working group.

Organisation of the sessions

• Duration: 60 minutes.
• Participants: 8 to 10 people (all between GDS 1-4).
• Place: The activity can take place at the L’ETNO or at the reference centre. In this case, the museum's didactic team will travel to the centre. 
• During the session, the group will be accompanied at all times by staff from their reference centre.

Aimed at people with Alzheimer's disease or other dementias in their initial stage, as well as older people with cognitive deficits associated with normal ageing.

Project carried out by María Raga and the Didactics team of the L’ETNO. For the development of this project, the Museum has had the advice of Dr. Rita Redondo and the collaboration of Javier Bendicho (Cotlas Association), both specialists in the psychology of ageing.