Friuli’s Ethnographic Museum – New Museum of Folk Arts and Traditions

Friuli’s Ethnographic Museum – New Museum of Folk Arts and Traditions is situated in the historic Palazzo Giacomelli in Udine, in the picturesque and lively Borgo Grazzano. It is housed in a new, recently renovated venue, and aims at creating temporal continuity with the original 1963 project: Friuli’s Museum of Folk Arts and Traditions designed by Gaetano Perusini. Most of the documents and of the objects on display derive from the collections donated by Perusini himself and by Luigi and Andreina Ciceri and give live to various themed exhibition areas. Textual, photographic and audiovisual devices are presented on the three floors of Friuli’s Ethnographic Museum, which mainly aims at recovering and setting off the identity memory of the Friulian people and of its land. On the ground floor, you will find the section dedicated to folk festivals, to domestic life, to fire and its various meanings, to emigration and to the “fogolâr”, the space around which everyday life takes place. Sacred, folk religiosity, medicine, play and music are the themes of the exhibition on the first floor. The art of textile processing and an interesting exhibition of traditional folk items of clothing are displayed on the second floor.

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