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02 September 2009

The current exhibitions

Sharing Cultural Memory

Contents - About the museum Siwalima - The Maluku Islands (Moluccas) - History of the "Spice Islands"                  * Early history                  * The Iberians                     * The Dutch                 * After Indonesian independence                 * The 1999-2003 Inter-communal Conflict - The current exhibitions - Virtual Museum - Bibliography

 

 

The current exhibitions

 

At present the Museum Siwalima shows in an ethnographic exhibition-buildung and in a separated maritime exibition-building important samples of its collection, which covers 5.226 pieces. In the ethnographic exhibitions the following topics are (well treated) presented: traditional architecture, household articles, textiles and clothes, jewelry, ceramics, religion, traditional economic systems (including hunting, means of payment, production of eucalyptus oil and edibles like Sago, palm wine) and others.

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