Представљање српског народног градитељства 19. века у етно-селу Угарске Миленијумске изложбе (1896)
Representation of 19th Century Serbian Folk Architecture from Banat in the Ethnographic Village of the Hungarian Millennium Exhibition (1896)

Summary/Abstract: In the last quarter of the 19th century, national exhibitions had become popular in Hungary as well, following the examples of world exhibitions around Europe. A part of this process was the Hungarian Millennium Exhibition set up in 1896, which mobilised enormous energy and presented the ethnographic values of the region with special emphasis. In the Ethnographic Village of the exhibition, the counties of the country set up valid copies of 24 furnished farmhouses from their regions. Twelve of these houses were intended to present the folk culture of national minorities living in Hungary. The Torontál County, among other things, exhibited a Serbian house type from Crepaja village and a copy of its furniture, as well as Serbian folk costumes from villages Melenci and Crepaja. A research preceded the exhibition. János Jankó, an ethnographer from Budapest, conducted a fieldwork in the above mentioned settlements in 1894, with the support of the Torontál County. During his trip, he made notes, photos and drawings. He summarised the results of his research on several occasions. After the closing of the exhibition, the objects were placed in the collection of the then-formed Museum of Ethnography in Budapest, where they can be found even today. In our work, we would like to publish the results of this research and exhibition in a wider context, since these data, drawings and photos, which are mostly unknown for the ethnography and cultural history of the region, originate from the earliest stage of professional ethnographic research in Banat.

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