"CROATIAN TRADITIONAL CULTURE" EXHIBITION TO BE STAGED IN BUDAPEST

ZAGREB, Jan 9 (Hina) - An exhibition of items from Croatian ethnographic museums, entitled "Croatian Traditional Culture: At the Turn of Worlds and Epochs", will take place at Budapest's Historical Museum between January 19 and February 13. The exhibition will travel around the world so that Croatia's peasant society and culture of the past could be presented as completely as possible, officials of the Croatian Culture Ministry told reporters in Zagreb last Friday. The exhibition will present some 700 items from the end of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries, which are kept in museums in Zagreb, Split, Vinkovci, Osijek, Slavonski Brod, Krk, Rijeka, Cavtat, Cakovec and Hvar. The exhibition is divided by regions and visitors will be able to see folk costumes, household items, handicrafts, decorative weapons, jewellery, toys, and musical instruments. The exhibition should also visit several towns in Canada and the United States, whereas talks with museums in Argentina and Chile are still underway, said Culture Minister Bozo Biskupic. This event and the exhibition "Croats - Christianity, Culture, Art" in the Vatican complete one segment in the presentation of Croatia's cultural heritage, Biskupic said. The exhibition is accompanied by a 600-page catalogue in English with contributions by 32 Croatian ethnologists and folklorists, and a video on the regions from which the exhibits are coming. (hina) rml