A detail of the local cottage

The collection is on display in two separate rooms. One room holds Slavonian ethnographic items, while the other constitutes a separate whole, decorated as a traditional local cottage.

Textile ethnographic items are particularly numerous: Bed and table covers, as well as head covers - both simple everyday ones, and those worn on solemn occasions.

Special scarfs used for kneeling at church and towels constitute a unit apart. Some towels were used for wiping hands and face, others only for special occasions (weddings or funerals), while others again were used merely as interior decorations.


Exhibited are also objects made of wood, used in everyday life, as well as in solemn occasions: Distaffs, all kinds of case sheaths, clappers used in the Good Week, butter mixer, chest boxes, traditional folk music instruments.

A separate room - the so called "Peasant Room" - shows the interior of a typical three-room rural home from the beginning of the century, with all the everyday life details. The room has in this case been decorated for a solemn occasion, demonstrated through the presence of tambura players, as well as through women's festive clothing. The room is dominated by a loom, shelves with dishes, and a set table.

 


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