Los reconocimientos

A group exhibition at the Museo del Traje in Madrid that reflects on its collections, its history and the conservation and research work carried out behind the scenes of the museum.

The Museo del Traje offers in this exhibition a look inside the institution: how the pieces that make up its ethnological heritage are organised, studied and looked after. The route is changeable and experimental, mixing past and present to consider what may depend on that work in the years ahead.

Visitors encounter a selection of objects of very different natures, materials and uses. Many of them recall everyday customs of Spanish society over the last two centuries, so that collective memory emerges as a point of contact. The pieces are grouped through associations and kinships that the viewer must relate and interpret for themselves, with a playful and participatory approach.

The proposal invites reflection on identity, cataloguing and museum conservation, and shows the technical and scientific work that usually goes unseen beyond the galleries. The project has been conceived as a collective curatorship, in which various technical departments of the institution take part.