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= Expositions of the Valencian Museum of Ethnology = The Valencian Museum of Ethnology was created in 1982 and opened to the public its first permanent exhibition in 1983.

Regarding to the permanent rooms, the museum has had several permanent exhibition projects. The first one dates from the museum's opening in 1983, and its aim was to dignify the collections compiled until that moment and showing the potential of the study of Valencian ethnology, but without making an exhaustive tour of the traditional Valencian society. This exhibition was divided into four sections dedicated to agriculture, livestock and the primary sector, pre-industrial trades and the last one dedicated to furniture, cooking and clothing.​ The brochure itself presented the Installation as provisional,​ and it introduced a huge collection of recovered traditional objects due to a great compilation task that had been carried out in previous years​. Therefore, they needed to show these objects and traditional Valencian culture wealth.​ The exhibition closed its doors in 1984.

In 1986 the original permanent exhibition was replaced by a monograph about the cereal cycle called Del gra al pa (From Grain to Bread), it was conceived as temporary but remained open until 1993. Despite being supposedly temporary, it was opened to the public from December 1986 to June 1993, becoming the longest exhibition of the museum. Its objective was explaining how the grain had been the material basis on which the traditional Valencian society was supported,​ using an advanced exposition approach for its time.​ In March and July 1996, two temporary exhibitions are held with this approach but dedicated to the domestic cycle. The museographical and museological ideas of these exhibitions have served as collateral for the museum's exhibitions in the following years.

With the rehabilitation of the Charity Center in 1995,​ the second permanent room of the Valencian Museum of Ethnology was created, with an exhibition already made with such purpose. Inside, there were shown three spheres of life: domestic environment, production of raw materials and manufacturing techniques. Furthermore, in a previous room, the territory of the Valencian Community was presented from the geographical, demographic, economic and cultural perspective.

In December 1997, the second exhibition was dismantled. The decision was justified by the need to obtain greater public projection from temporary exhibitions, as well as reordering the Museum's presentation areas. This change resulted in the beginning of a period with a large number of temporary exhibitions, being promoted 64 between 1997 and 2002. The Museum work focused, almost exclusively, in the field of dissemination, through the creation of thematic secondary sites (for example, the Valencian Museum of Algemesí Festivity, dedicated to the Procesión de la Virgen María d’Algemesí), and other mechanisms such as external action through traveling exhibitions for municipalities,  and the creation of a large number of temporary exhibitions with a variety of topics.​ In this period there was a high activity which allowed to experiment in the field of speech communication,​ but this led to no permanent exhibition in the museum yet,​ and the creation of permanent rooms about traditional society was considered in 2000.

Meanwhile, the Valencian Museum of Ethnology and the Prehistory Museum of Valencia merged in December 1999, creating the Museum of Prehistory and Cultures of Valencia.​ This situation was maintained until May 2005.​ This caused that, during this period, the ethnology permanent exhibitions were raised within a historical route that showed all the cultures that had inhabited the territory of the current Valencian Community.​ Thus the permanent exhibition project is structured on the basis of relating culture and territory.

As of 2003, work begins on a new permanent exhibition project that shows the Valencian Country from three different optics: cities, kitchen gardens and tidal marshes and mountain and dryland.​ In 2003, the first part of the project, dedicated to the cities, was produced, and the three areas of the permanent exhibition continued to progressively develop,​ which culminated in 2011.

In October 2004, the first of the permanent exhibitions of the museum, La Ciutat Viscuda, ciutats valencianes en trànsit 1800-1940 (The Lived City, Valencians Cities in Transit 1800-1940), was inaugurated,​ presenting a classical museum practice,​ of an evocative and even nostalgic nature​ based on objects, photographs and interviews of oral memory.​ There are different parts within the exhibition: “the spaces of the city”, “living in the city”, “working in the city”, “coexisting in the city” and “knowing more”, occupying about 400 square meters.

The second of the permanent exhibitions is called Horta i Marjal (Kitchen Garden and Tidal Marsh). It was presented with a renovating museum practice, of a conceptual nature.​ From two or three main ideas,​ a museum with few objects is presented in the first room, with its discursive force lying in photographs and the scenography itself, of an innovative nature, for example using orange baskets combined with images on the export of oranges.​ On the contrary, the second part of the exhibition is located in the so-called “sala de los objetos” (Room of Objects), where showcases with objects that are grouped by work processes​ and collections related to festivities, religion, fishing in the tidal marsh and domestic work​ are presented. The objects related to agricultural work stand out due to the special importance of kitchen garden in the Valencian area. This room serves as an example of the wealth of objects’ collections guarded by the museum.

Secà i Muntanya follows the structure of the previous exhibition, with a conceptual room and a marked scenography character in the design, and a second where objects play a leading role. The conceptual room shows the invisibilities of the cultural and geographical realities of the Valencian rural area. The scenography stands out with a reproduction at a scale of 1:25,000 of the unirrigated Valencian territory covering the entire room. During the exhibition, pieces of musographic relevance are used such as a cart loaded with televisions, or traditional objects hung from the ceiling, forcing a different perspective of observation to the usual one.

At the same time, there have been temporary exhibitions dedicated to the world of Valencian pilota, music bands and migrations. These temporary exhibitions complement the permanent ones.

Temporary exhibitions
Parallel to the permanent exhibitions, there have been temporary exhibitions dedicated to the world of Valencian pilota, music bands or migrations. These temporary exhibitions complement the permanent ones and cover a wide range of subjects.

Previously, however, there had been temporary exhibitions. From the inauguration of the museum until 1996, a series of monographic exhibitions dedicated to different areas of the territory were carried out. There was one dedicated to the cereal cycle from 1986 until 1993, despite being conceived as temporary. From 1996 onwards, the Museum has focused its policy on temporary exhibitions, some of its own and others on loan from other museums or private collections. Between 1997 and 2002, a total of 64 different exhibitions were to be held.

Travelling exhibitions
Apart from the exhibitions which are permanently in the museum, there are also travelling exhibitions that are available to other centres or associations.These exhibitions are, in some cases, adapted versions of the museum's storms, dedicated to subjects such as the world of the Valencian pilota, or as "Pasen y vean" (Come and See) or "Pueblos abandonados, pueblos en la memoria" (Abandonned Villages, Villages in Memoriam). The purpose of these is to take content related to the museum itself to local entities and educational centres.

These exhibitions have certain characteristics: on the one hand they are reduced versions compared to permanent or temporary exhibitions, on the other hand, they have the capacity to travel, that is to say, they are designed to be moved from one place to another without much complication or exhibition requirements, except for a minimum space and security conditions that are demanded before the cession of the same.

They are designed for four types of circuits: provincial, autonomous, national and international.

In addition to the Itinerant Exhibitions Unit, the Museum also has an educational proposal through the so-called "Didactic Suitcases", specially designed for use in educational centres.

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= Expositions of the Valencian Museum of Ethnology = The Valencian Museum of Ethnology was created in 1982 and opened to the public its first permanent exhibition in 1983.

Regarding the permanent rooms, the museum has had several permanent exhibition projects. The first one dates from the museum's opening in 1983, and its aim was to dignify the collections compiled until that moment and showing the potential of the study of Valencian ethnology, but without making an exhaustive tour of the traditional Valencian society. This exhibition was divided into four sections dedicated to agriculture, livestock and the primary sector, pre-industrial trades and the last one dedicated to furniture, cooking and clothing.​ The brochure itself presented the installation as provisional,​ and it introduced a huge collection of recovered traditional objects due to a great compilation task that had been carried out in previous years​. Therefore, they needed to show these objects and traditional Valencian culture wealth.​ The exhibition closed its doors in 1984.

In 1986 the original permanent exhibition was replaced by a monograph about the cereal cycle called Del gra al pa (From Grain to Bread), it was conceived as temporary but remained open until 1993. Despite being supposedly temporary, it was open to the public from December 1986 to June 1993, becoming the longest exhibition of the museum. Its objective was explaining how the grain had been the material basis on which the traditional Valencian society was supported,​ using an advanced exposition approach for its time.​ In March and July 1996, two temporary exhibitions are held with this approach but dedicated to the domestic cycle. The museographical and museological ideas of these exhibitions have served as collateral for the museum's exhibitions in the following years.

With the rehabilitation of the Charity Center in 1995,​ the second permanent room of the Valencian Museum of Ethnology is created, with an exhibition already made with such purpose. Inside, there were shown three spheres of life: domestic environment, production of raw materials and manufacturing techniques. Furthermore, in a previous room, the territory of the Valencian Community was presented from the geographical, demographic, economic and cultural perspective.

In December 1997, the second exhibition was dismantled. The decision was justified by the need to obtain greater public projection from temporary exhibitions, as well as reordering the Museum's presentation areas. This change resulted in the beginning of a period with a large number of temporary exhibitions, being promoted 64 between 1997 and 2002. The Museum work focused, almost exclusively, in the field of dissemination, through the creation of thematic secondary sites (for example, the Valencian Museum of Algemesí Festivity, dedicated to the Procesión de la Virgen María d’Algemesí), and other mechanisms such as external action through traveling exhibitions for municipalities,  and the creation of a large number of temporary exhibitions with a variety of topics.​ In this period there was a high activity which allowed to experiment in the field of speech communication,​ but this led to no permanent exhibition in the museum yet,​ and the creation of permanent rooms about traditional society was considered in 2000.

Meanwhile, the Valencian Museum of Ethnology and the Prehistory Museum of Valencia merged in December 1999, creating the Museum of Prehistory and Cultures of Valencia.​ This situation was maintained until May 2005.​ This caused that, during this period, the ethnology permanent exhibitions were raised within a historical route that showed all the cultures that had inhabited the territory of the current Valencian Community.​ Thus, the permanent exhibition project is structured on the basis of relating culture and territory.

As of 2003, work begins on a new permanent exhibition project that shows the Valencian Country from three different optics: cities, kitchen gardens and tidal marshes and mountain and dryland.​ In 2003, the first part of the project, dedicated to the cities, was produced, and the three areas of the permanent exhibition continued to progressively develop,​ which culminated in 2011.

In October 2004, the first of the permanent exhibitions of the museum, La Ciutat Viscuda, ciutats valencianes en trànsit 1800-1940 (The Lived City, Valencians Cities in Transit 1800-1940), was inaugurated,​ presenting a classical museum practice,​ of an evocative and even nostalgic nature​ based on objects, photographs and interviews of oral memory.​ There are different parts within the exhibition: “the spaces of the city”, “living in the city”, “working in the city”, “coexisting in the city” and “knowing more”, occupying about 400 square meters.

The second of the permanent exhibitions is called Horta i Marjal (Kitchen Garden and Tidal Marsh). It was presented with a renovating museum practice, of a conceptual nature.​ From two or three main ideas,​ a museum with few objects is presented in the first room, with its discursive force lying in photographs and the scenography itself, of an innovative nature, for example using orange baskets combined with images on the export of oranges.​ On the contrary, the second part of the exhibition is located in the so-called “sala de los objetos” (Room of Objects), where showcases with objects that are grouped by work processes​ and collections related to festivities, religion, fishing in the tidal marsh and domestic work​ are presented. The objects related to agricultural work stand out due to the special importance of kitchen garden in the Valencian area. This room serves as an example of the wealth of objects’ collections guarded by the museum.

Secà i Muntanya follows the structure of the previous exhibition, with a conceptual room and a marked scenography character in the design, and a second where objects play a leading role.The conceptual room shows the invisibilities of the cultural and geographical realities of the Valencian rura l.The scenography stands out with a reproduction at a scale of 1:25,000 of the unirrigated Valencian territory covering the entire room. During the exhibition, pieces of museum relevance are used such as a cart loaded with televisions, or traditional objects hung from the ceiling, forcing a different perspective of observation to the usual one.

At the same time, there have been temporary exhibitions dedicated to the world of Valencian pelota, music bands and migrations. These temporary exhibitions complement the permanent ones.

Temporary exhibitions
Parallel to the permanent exhibitions, there have been temporary exhibitions dedicated to the world of Valencian pilota, music bands or migrations. These temporary exhibitions complement the permanent ones and cover a wide range of subjects.

Previously, however, they had had temporary exhibitions for him. From the inauguration of the museum until 1996, a series of monographic exhibitions dedicated to different areas of the territory were carried out, among them one dedicated to the cereal cycle, which despite being conceived as temporary, was in exhibition from 1986 to 1993. From 1996 onwards, the Museum has focused its policy on temporary exhibitions, some of its own and others on loan from other museums or private collections. Between 1997 and 2002, a total of 64 different exhibitions were to be held.

Travelling exhibitions
Apart from the exhibitions which are permanently in the museum, there are also travelling exhibitions that are available to other centres or associations.These exhibitions are, in some cases, adapted versions of the museum's storms,dedicated to themes such as the world of the Valencian ball, or as "Pasen y vean" or "Pueblos abandonados, pueblos en la memoria". The purpose of these is to take content related to the museum itself to local entities and educational centres.

These exhibitions have certain characteristics, on the one hand they are reduced versions compared to permanent or temporary exhibitions; on the other hand, they have the capacity to travel, that is to say, they are designed to be moved from one place to another without much complication or exhibition requirements, except for a minimum space and security conditions that are demanded before the cession of the same.

They are designed for four types of circuits: provincial, autonomous, national and international.

In addition to the Itinerant Exhibitions Unit, the Museum also has an educational proposal through the so-called Didactic Suitcases, specially designed for use in educational centres.