ZAGREB ZAGREB, May 18 (Hina) - A ball of cobwebs, turkey clothes, a mummified crocodile and a statue of Stalin are only a few of about 100 unusual items presented at the exhibition "Helter-skelter" which opened at Zagreb's "Mimara"
museum on Tuesday. The items, borrowed from Zagreb museums' safe-keeping rooms, share one common trait - they are never or very rarely exhibited because they do not fit into the standing exhibitions of their home museums or other exhibition concepts. The bizarre exhibits include a 19th century portable toilet, an ostrich egg, a stone found in an ox's bladder, the panties of Queen Natalija Obrenovic (the wife of Serbian King Milan II Obrenovic who lived in the second half of the 19th century), a tortoise-shaped spitting bowl, a stomach bandage and a shirt of Croatian Vice-Roy Josip Jelacic (1801-1859), a box with gold-plated toothpicks, a robot, a TV set produced by the Zagreb
ZAGREB, May 18 (Hina) - A ball of cobwebs, turkey clothes, a
mummified crocodile and a statue of Stalin are only a few of about
100 unusual items presented at the exhibition "Helter-skelter"
which opened at Zagreb's "Mimara" museum on Tuesday.
The items, borrowed from Zagreb museums' safe-keeping rooms, share
one common trait - they are never or very rarely exhibited because
they do not fit into the standing exhibitions of their home museums
or other exhibition concepts.
The bizarre exhibits include a 19th century portable toilet, an
ostrich egg, a stone found in an ox's bladder, the panties of Queen
Natalija Obrenovic (the wife of Serbian King Milan II Obrenovic who
lived in the second half of the 19th century), a tortoise-shaped
spitting bowl, a stomach bandage and a shirt of Croatian Vice-Roy
Josip Jelacic (1801-1859), a box with gold-plated toothpicks, a
robot, a TV set produced by the Zagreb RIZ factory in 1964/65, and a
refrigerator from 1927.
The section "For Those Above 18" contains erotic drawings and
sculptures, and a collection of erotic drawings by an unknown
Chinese author.
The exhibition is viewed by going through a labyrinth with several
departments entitled "Ugh, School", "Home, Sweet Home", "Hobby",
"All for Travel", "Faraway Countries", "Men", "Women", and
"Miracles".
The exhibition was staged by Zelimir Laszlo from the Museum-
Documentation Centre and Bruno Seper from the "Mimara" museum.
Apart from this and other exhibitions, the international Day of
Museums in Zagreb is marked also with an on-the-road exhibition
"New Museums in France 1990-2000".
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