L'ETNO, Museu Valencià d'Etnologia, has as its main mission to collect, research and communicate everything related to the traditional and popular Valencian culture. As most of the cultures today the Valencian people are facing a future with an indefinite cultural identity. Their identity is constantly swinging between two opposing forces, the current reality of a culturally homogeneous world and the desire of keeping their own customs and traditions.
Every cultural identity is subject to contradictions, tensions and a lack of unanimity. Some people see cultural identities as something positive while others hate them; some only defend their own cultural identity, based on exclusive assumptions, when others stand up far multiculturalism. What seems clear is that cultural identity is far from being a static and closed concept. It is in constant evolution, in a permanent dialogue between different sensibilities present in society.
In its permanent rooms L'ETNO proposes perspectives around these questions framed at the Valencian society from the end of the pre-industrial era to our time. The exhibition is organized in three different areas, and in each of them one particular issue is discussed. Thus, in the city, the exhibition presents issues related to tensions between global and local; in the irrigated farmland and the marshland you will find some stereotypes related to the Valencian culture; the space dedicated to the dryland and mountain is devoted to showing some not often very well-known aspects of the Valencian inland territory.
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