Familiar things

This exhibition is a collaboration between the students of the Budapest Metropolitan University and the researchers of the Museum of Ethnography and is based on participatory museum praxis. During the semester class-room work examined the following questions: How do we use our everyday objects? How do we select the ones which are important for us? Can we characterise ourselves with objects? The exhibition is an experiment to link display and privacy.

The creative process was driven by open-mindedness and dialogue while the exhibition attempts to dissolve the antagonism between professionals and non-professionals in a museum context. There are objects, photos, stories and fictious compositions linked together in the space of the exhibition and the participants reflect on what it means for them to make their own everyday lives visible.