***** Serbian Culture Revealed ***** National customs in diverse cultural communities are easily drowned by today's new age pop culture and even fast food. Our rapidly changing world is becoming a one way street for many, where history isn_x0019_ t valued but treated more as a nuisance. However, a nation without a culture is like a human without personality. In 'Serbian Culture Revealed', a group of authors present their national culture and traditions, which have stayed with them to this day. They understand that by preserving this knowledge, it's the only way they can save it. Moving to Australia and becoming a part of Australian society, their lives have changed. But by revealing their past, they're proving it's only added to their newfound Australian values. This exhibition captures well-preserved Serbian culture through pictures, photographs and handcrafts. This includes several photographs of valuable pieces from the National Serbian Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, which holds more than 160,000 items, displaying both the traditional rural and the urban culture of the Balkans. There are three collections on display: Memories of Serbia, Then and Now, and Orthodoxy. Each one connects the past with the present and the future. With a history spanning more than 1000 years, Serbs undoubtedly boast one of the richest cultures across all aspects of life. It is one that is heavily influenced by other European cultures but also deeply unique in its own right. Also part of the exhibition are a range of black and white photos that set the imagination free to visualize both the colours we can see and those we can only feel. Those of Serbian soldiers from the First World War reveal happiness, worry and sadness in a single snapshot. Impressive national costumes, some which are still used today, are also on display. 'Serbian Culture Revealed' is an attempt to visually capture a culture deeply embedded in this group of Serbian authors& and also an attempt to represent the wide expanse of the Balkans as a whole.
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