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In this visit to the permanent collection of the ETNO, after a brief introduction to understand what ethnology is and the different exhibition places that we will go through, we will get inside the different fields of the permanent exhibition: the city, the huerta and the marshland; and the dry-land and the mountain. Concerning the city, through the analysis of the globalisation concept, we will learn about the effects and transformations that the city of València has struggled with in terms of economy, culture, society and urban life by playing a “game” of scenography and object contrasts, the ways of living –traditional and contemporary– and the developments that made them possible.

As in the city, the transversal axis of the content was globalisation. To the huerta and the marsh, the fundamental concept –intrinsic in the reasoning about these natural settings of the Valencian territory– will be the imaginary one. In the Huerta y Marjal room we will reflect upon some stereotypes that inspired these cultural spaces, both created and fed by us as those conceived by tourists, non-residents or not born in València.

Finally, we will focus on the dry-land and mountain land, since –in spite of mistaken beliefs– we are a country of mountains increasingly abandoned and with forgotten habits, knowledge and traditions. For a great part of us –urbanites by obligation or by devotion–, dry-land and mountains are idealised places. It is the antithesis of the city. Here, we want you to look at other realities less known that these territories also have: industrial cities, natural and intangible heritage, depopulation, emigration or natural resources exploitation.