After the Award of Excellence, the Brill Museum!

Museum of Ethnography’s latest project

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Over the centuries peddlers and tradesmen have been among the major mediators of culture. In addition to a direct exchange of goods, they have always been active in spreading information, taking the latest news directly to the people. Could a museum educational project or the Museum of Ethnography perhaps be sold better by ‘peddling’? Most probably, yes – particularly by involving the good practices evolved with traditional products. After the success of the ethnomobile project, the question has arisen concerning what we should sell in a new avant-garde mobile project. What should the product be? The answer seems to be concrete case studies, and museums which outline current social pheno-mena, movements and tensions. In 2013 we competed for the Award of Excellence with the aim that perhaps the prize won with the exhibition transitive conjugation ◊ Subjective Ethno-graphy could be spent on implementing a new study exhibition touring in a caravan. It turned out that the renovation of our caravan, which has been stationary for years, and putting it on the road as well as launch-ing the planned project would be far more expensive. Therefore, we are going to prepare a small part of the peddling project, a museum educational project that can be transported in a suitcase, and organise the new exhibition in the caravan only later, hopefully with the support of sponsors. The PikkPack museum is actually a suitcase on wheels fashioned for a museum educational purpose. It sets off in Budapest in Sep-tember. For the relaunch of the caravan, we are planning an ex-hibition and interpretation programme entitled Museum of Ethnography: the Brill Museum aimed at a broad stratum of the public.