Császi Irén szerk.: „Ki játszik ilyet?” Játékhagyomány és játékdivat (Eger, 2010. április 21-október 17.)

"Who wants to play this?" The Tradition and Fashion of Toys Eger, István Dobó Castle Museum - Dobó Bastion 21 April - 17 October, 2010 The exhibition shows the impact of the tradition and fashion setting adult world on the games of village and city children. Along traditional folk toys made from various materials through toys of the civil community prepared with meticulous care to the toys of toymaking craftsmen's co-operatives and toymaking companies it is reflected what children played with from the end of the 19th century up until the 1970s. The works on display come from the toy, ethnographical and historical collections of István Dobó Castle Museum as well as from county and national public collections. Civil toys represent a great majority of the collection. It is based on the toys collected by Lóránt Faragó (1912-1985), a local photographer together with the civil toys of Margit Virágh from Szuha. The ethnographers of the museum have enlarged the folk toys of the ethnographical collection since the mid 1950s. Children with the help of their toys imitate their parents, adults and each other too, while their toys reflect real life. The toys surrounding children are the personal articles in miniature of every age and society. From birth up until adulthood the children learned the customs, traditions and were introduced into work and community sometimes unawares, and at times consciously. In the villages of Bükkalja inhabited by the Palóc people and in the Mátra mountains the trades of fathers working in logging, yoke carving, lime burning, animal breeding, farming, transportation were observed and then imitated by their sons very early. They fabricated carts, horses, yokes and logs on carriages; small charcoal kilns were made and then burned. Girls learned maternal roles and practised the behaviour of adult ladies by dolls made of natural materials, as they called them puppets, and by small copies of household appliances. Palóc land is nowadays the last place of the traditional Saint's Day fair gifts, of painted wooden toys. In the interior presenting Eger Servite Saint's Day colourful walking sticks, rakes, spontoons, clappers, horse-drawn carts, cradles and clacking wooden toys to push, ginger bread dolls, hearts and hussars lie side by side. The toys of city children consisted of not only toys made by themselves, the toy offer of the manufacturing industry produced a glut of toy novelties from the second half of the 19th century. The fashionable trends of adulthood culture appeared in toys and games. In civil families girls with the help of doll's houses, doll's rooms, furniture, china sets and toy dishes practised interior design, housekeeping, taste and etiquette. The dresses of dolls were always identical to the children's and women's dresses of the given culture, women's fashion. Bisquehead dolls from the workshops of the Simon and Halbig company, the Heubach brothers, Arthur Schoenau and Carl Hoffmeister as well as Armand Marseille can be seen in the exhibition. The garments of dolls starting from underwear made from fabric through tights and caps, to 27