One and a half hundred items from the collections of the Crimean Ethnographic Museum are presented at an exhibition in Kerch

CrimeaPRESS reports:

Over 150 items from the collections of the Crimean Ethnographic Museum are presented at the temporary exhibition “Peoples of Crimea”, which opened in the Picture Gallery of the East Crimean Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve.

The exhibits on display tell about the 15 most numerous peoples of the peninsula (Russians, Ukrainians, Bulgarians, Germans, Crimean Tatars, Estonians, Greeks, Armenians, Karaites, Crimeans, Belarusians, Czechs, Italians, Jews, Gypsies).

The exhibition displays traditional folk costumes, items of economic activity and home decoration, elements of religious worship, numerous historical photographs of the late 19th — mid-20th centuries, and stands with statistical information.

The opening ceremony of the exhibition was filled with a variety of musical works, emphasizing the richness of the cultures of the peoples inhabiting Crimea. Creative groups and performers from Kerch presented musical and vocal works in Russian, Greek, Crimean Tatar and Ukrainian languages, — reported the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Crimea. — The honorary guests of the meeting were representatives of the Kerch administration, leaders and members of national societies, and employees of Crimean museums.

The first tour of the new exhibition for participants and guests of the event was given by the Deputy Director of the Crimean Ethnographic Museum Lyudmila Naumenko.

You can visit the exhibition until December 18.

Photo: East Crimean Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve.

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