Bujdosné Pap Györgyi - Császi Irén (szerk.): Agria 48. (Az egri Dobó István Vármúzeum Évkönyve - Annales Musei Agriensis, 2013)
Matúz Edit: Játékkiállítások - Játékok a kiállításokban
The exhibition Playing is good! Historic exploring in the realm of toys could be seen in the Castle Museum of the Budapest History Museum from November 2003 to February 2004, and in the Castle Museum of Ferenc Móra Museum, Szeged from March to July 2004. Toys were selected beside the aforementioned museums from the Hungarian National Museum and 12 other museums and private collectors, images were provided by the Hungarian National Gallery and the Museum of Fine Arts. The goal of the exhibition was to demonstrate the history of toys from prehistoric times to the mid 20th century through the lessons learned from written sources, illustrations and paintings depicting children at play, for those interested in. The principle of arranging was the thematic order and chronological order within that. The key themes: nature's toys, noise makers, instmments, throwing, aiming, skill, mobile games, animal depictions, boys’, girls’ toys, gambling games, board games, party games, cards. The prehistoric, small objects made of clay, metal, or bone: miniature pots, rattles (Figure 2), clay disks, rings, cart wheels, cart models, animal figurines - under certain circumstances — could serve as toys. Toys are known from the Roman times in the Carpathian Basin as well (dice, bone disks, clay and bronze rattles, clay balls etc). The number of toys, resources, descriptions and quantities of the representations increased during the Middle Ages (chess pieces, toy disks, dice, tokens, clay snail, mill representations, whistles, rattles, dolls, toy horses (Figure 3), jousting figures). It was in the ethnographic material in v/hich some forms have long been made from of organic materials, and many of the simple, home-made toys (e.g. wooden weapons, chariots (Figure 2), vehicle models, musical instruments, clay whistles, comhusk, corncob, straw and rag dolls, etc.) were preserved. The most spectacular were the 17th-19th century applied art works; the backgammon board probably from the property of Mihály Apafi, the goose game of I. Joseph, or the chess set of Lajos Kossuth. The series of accompanying events featured arts and crafts activities, costume games, chess simultaneous, various playhouses. To the exhibition a catalog and an activity book were created. In the Museum of Literature in 2007-2008, with connection to the Long live the Grund! The Paul Street Boys is 100-year-old exhibition a grund-game, a contemporary desktop, a box containig the objects of the Putty society, ratable images, opportunity to play marbles, situational games and a - still existing - great website showed the children the world of the novel's age. In 2009-2010, in the Once upon a time... Elek Benedek was born 150 years ago exhibition, beside reading, story-listening, work sheet and activity booklet filling options, wooden and paper toys, and many puppets provided chance to the interested individuals and groups to try their hands in puppetry (Figure 4) or in presentation of dramatized folk tales. Photo and drawing exhibition, situational 238
