The Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, the Museum of Science and Technology (Belgrade), the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Belgrade and the National Museum of Zrenjanin present the exhibition "Shredding - The story of the avan", dedicated to the subject of the avan, one of the oldest human tools whose function has remained unchanged to this day.
The exhibition explores, valorizes and presents a rarely exhibited museum object - the avan, as a specific human tool essentially unchanged since prehistoric times. We can rightly consider it a civilizational insignia - a signifier of the end of man's survival and the beginning of the culture of food. Its continuous use in pharmacy has made it a tool that is a symbol of pharmacy. Avan (tarionic) is the first tool that was used to make medicines back in ancient Egypt. In prehistoric times, the first avans were made of stone. In the period of antiquity, shallow and similar bowls were made of stone and marble. In the Middle Ages, in addition to stone and wood, bronze also began to be used. From the end of the 18th century, they began to be made of porcelain and glass. Today, they are made from a wide variety of natural and artificial materials. Precisely because of this, avan is a unique cultural heritage of many cultures of the world, and certainly of our culture. In the culture of the Balkan peoples, fragmentation and avan have a civilizational continuity. At the exhibition, through the story of the avan, not only its cultural significance will be presented, but also the wider cultural context of chopping food and other foodstuffs and substances, in fact the cultural significance of the human activity of chopping.
The exhibition will present various examples of avans, from prehistoric times to the present day, from the collections of the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade, the Museum of Science and Technology (Belgrade), the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Belgrade, the Museum of the City of Belgrade, the National Museum in Požarevac, the Archaeological Institute of SANU, private the collection of Stevan Vukov, a pharmacist from Zrenjanin, and private collections. The authors of the exhibition are Jelena Manojlović, Miloš Matić, Svetlana Mitrović, Daniela Pejović and Ivan Stanić.
The exhibition will last until March 1, 2019, and the responsible curator at the Zrenjanin National Museum is Branka Babić, curator-ethnologist.
The exhibition was realized with support Beiersdorf Serbia.
Source: press release, National Museum Zrenjanin
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