TEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS
15TH LIVING FOLK ART EXHIBITION - 8 July – 15 September, 2010 "WHO WANTS TO PLAY THIS?" - THE TRADITION AND FASHION OF TOYS - 21 4 – 17 10, 2010.15TH LIVING FOLK ART EXHIBITION
THE NORTHERN HUNGARY EXHIBITION OF
NATIONAL FOLK ART EXHIBITION
István Dobó Castle Museum, Eger
8 July – 15 September, 2010
The exhibition displays over 400 works of art by folk artists and The Young Masters of Folk Art from the three counties (Heves, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén and Nógrád) of Northern Hungary. The visitor can see embroidery, woven tapestries, folk dresses, furniture, toys, decorated eggs, lace, leather pieces, baskets, and many more.
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“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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