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The core of the ethnographic collections consists of objects
that document daily
life from the end of the 18th century to the
post-war years. The majority of those
items have been acquired from field
work by local historians, and later by
specialists on the museum’s staff,
and from donations from the citizens of
Roztoky and nearby villages from the
end of the 1950s to the first half of the
1970s. That has resulted in a
valuable collection of items that document
household furnishings and farm
tools throughout practically the entire Central
Bohemia region. Rural crafts
are represented by the complete equipment for a
blacksmith’s forge, and
tools used by locksmiths, joiners and cobblers. The
contents of a country
cottage, mainly from the 19th century, are an important part
of
the ethnographic collections. There is also an extensive collection of
clothing,
although
there are only a few examples of traditional national dress. There is a
large
collection of folk art, especially statuettes of saints, the Virgin Mary and
Jesus,
and paintings on glass with the same iconography, and commercial and
religious
prints and nativity scenes. The collection currently has approximately
13 000
items.
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