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"WHO WANTS TO PLAY THIS?" - THE TRADITION AND FASHION OF TOYS - 21 4 – 17 10, 2010. THE DAY OF EGER FORTRESS - 17.10.2010"Who wants to play this?"
The Tradition and Fashion of Toys
Temporary exhibition in István Dobó Castle Museum, Eger
21 April – 17 October, 2010.
Imitating is a crucial part of our lives. Children with the help of their toys imitate their parents, adults as well as each other, and their toys reflect real life. The toys surrounding children are the personal articles in miniature of every age and society. The utensils, customs and erudition of grown-ups, the ritual of holidays live on in children’s toys and games.
The exhibition show-cases the impact of the adult world setting tradition and fashion on the games and toys of village and city children.
From the end of the 19th century up until the 1970s by traditional folk toys made from various materials along with toys of the civil community fashioned with meticulous care we reflect what children played with. How they dressed up and combed the hair of their dolls, furnished the miniature doll houses, cooked, played with horses, carts, played at soldiers, and how they played trains or cars. In the way adults, people respected and honoured by the community and adults did, and later as the manufacturing industry set the fashion with their products.
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The Day of Eger Fortress - 17 October, 2010
The István Dobó Castle Museum organises the programme of The Day of Eger Castle on the 17 October, 2010 to celebrate the 1552 heroic defence of the fortress.
All day’s programmes and the History of the Fortress, Art Gallery and the Casemates exhibitions are free to enter. There are two places that we open only for this day of the year, the grave hall of King Imre and the Turkish Garden.
The visitors can attend handicraft activities, see the restoration hall, enjoy reenactment tournaments and interpretations, changing of the guards. At 12 a laying of the wreath takes place in the Heroes’ Hall.