Language Exhibitions

Present/Permanent

                   

Focus

Exhibition

Location

Details

200+ world languages

 

Permanent Language Exhibition

National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, Japan

Multimedia display with information on many languages in the world

Esperanto and other planned languages

Department of Planned Languages and Esperanto Museum

 

Austrian National Library, Vienna, Austria

Attempts to solve the language problem, new languages like Klingon, and houses the Esperanto Museum

Writing systems

"The Culture of Writing"

The Museum of Communication, Bern, Switzerland

Interactive exhibits with historical artifacts showing the evolution from stone tablet to text message

Algonquin

"Algonquin Language"

Omàmiwinini Pimàdjwowin, Golden Lake, Ontario

Cultural artifacts and exhibit on Ottawa Valley culture and language

Alutiiq

"Alutiiq Language"

The Alutiiq Museum, Kodiak, Alaska

Museum is mainly about the history and culture of the Alutiiq, while the website has extensive information on the language

Gitxsan

 

Archives of Gitxsan language

Gitxsan Treaty Office, Hazelton, British Columbia

Resource centre with one of the largest collections of Aboriginal oral history in the world

Occitan

"Ua lenga, l'occitan"

 

Vilhera, France (and online)

22 poster presentation in French and Occitan with detailed information on the language and its history

Shuswap

"Shuswap Language"

Secwepemc Museum & Heritage Park, Kamloops, British Columbia

Archaeological and ethnographic museum, aiming to promote the Shuswap language and culture

 

Past

                                         

Focus

Exhibition

Location

Details

Italian

"Italian, the Italians - A Journey through the History of the Italian language"

Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy

March-September 2003

 

 

 

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