Exhibition "Peoples of Crimea"

About exhibition

The exhibition presents the multinational culture of Crimea — a region with a rich history and extensive cultural heritage. Its primary aim is to reflect the regional culture of the late 19th–early 20th centuries, formed through a synthesis of the traditions of Greek, Turkic, Armenian, German, Romance and Slavic populations whose members settled in these territories at different times. For the first time in the practice of ethnographic display, features that characterize Crimea in civilizational terms are identified and represented. The cross-cutting theme of interethnic interaction is revealed in dialectical connection with the traits of cultural distinctiveness of the peoples for whom Crimea became their native land. Monuments of the culture of Crimea’s multinational population are an important part of the common historical heritage of the peoples of Russia. The exhibition showcases more than 250 examples of the traditional culture of Crimea’s peoples from the collections of the Russian Ethnographic Museum. These include costume ensembles of Crimean Tatars, Krymchaks, Greeks, Bulgarians, Russians and Ukrainians; examples of coppersmithing, jewelry, shoemaking and pottery crafts; richly decorated household textiles — towels, bedspreads, pillowcases; and religious objects that illustrate Crimea’s uniquely complex religious panorama.