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Exhibition in Hungarian Open Air Museum (Skanzen in Szentendre, Hu)  Museums of societies, ethnographical museums, open air museums and ecomuseums are invested with the mission to treat the main questions concerning our contemporaries, to enlighten them, to make them wonder about their fears, and to help them as much as possible, to better comprehend reality, and to act with deeper knowledge of their mental, social and physical environment. One of the most serious issues is that of the future of the planet. What shall we leave to our children?
Re-read the use of nature so often respectful, ingenious and economical.The agricultural world of long ago, not all mythical, opens up landscapes, techniques, knowledge, know –how and traditions…to be repossessed with patience and modesty.  Photo by: Tamas Cziglan The SOS exhibition proposes a re-reading of rural collections to extract the best (there has also been the worst in the past). The tentation was obviously strong to idealize bygone times, of which the elderly often speak with nostalgia. We could re-create an idealized vision of the past, destined for young generations, who never knew it. The relevance of this situation gives strength and legitimacy to a whole group of archeological objects freeing them from pointlessness and obsoleteness and propelling them into the world of contemporary technology: the leading example would be the use of wind, our ancestors created the wind mill, engineers and technicians in aerodynamics.  Photo by: Tamas Cziglan The visitor enters the subject in a space which reflects on the beauty of a protected world. With the chronological space, he will be brought to understand that the destruction was made by stages, a long period almost unchanging with very few innovations, is the phase where man invents a few tools, extensions of hands and feet. Time accelerates to arrive at a multiplication of machines and an exponential destruction of the agriculture from the Middle –Ages till today. More than dates, inventors or techniques, it seemed more important to insist on the parameters determining the evolution of industrialized societies. The emphasis has been placed on four prevailing questions of today: energy, recycling, food and landscape. It was important to convey the need to use local resources and to reduce the coast the transport and associated risks. Rural heritage may be exemplary in terms of the use of energy and of recycling. Natural and local materials, cheaper in coast, such as earth or wood, have lasting qualities in the domain of technical skills and energy saving. I try an intallation of bicycles connected to light bulbs provides lighting fot the room through the muscular activity of the pedalling visitor. An illustration of the notion of physical work good for health and for the environment. Avoiding waste and throw-aways in one of the major issues to put forward. It is a life attitude.  Photo by: Tamas Cziglan The authors of the exhibition are well awere that the contribution of rural heritage in a global policy of lasting development is only an incomplete approach for a planetary problem. It is an approach conceived by and for rich countries, while three quarters of humanity suffer from chronic malnutrition even though practising lasting agriculture. More information: http://skanzen.hu/index.php Bookmark us: 
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