Öriné Nagy Cecília (szerk.): A gödöllői szőnyeg 100 éve - Tanulmányok a 20. századi magyar textilművészet történetéhez (Gödöllő, 2009)

Summaries

138 When planning the program called Corner of Tales, we had in mind the following ideas: -To offer the children such a memorable experience that would incite them to return to the museum with their family, with the kindergarten or in the company of their schoolmates. We thought that we should provide exhibits (reconstructions, copies) that they can touch, take into their hands, and eventually smell, in order to involve as many sense-organs as possible in the pleasure of experience. It is important that the museum should not be only the place of prohibitions: don't rush about, don't be noisy, don't touch the exhibits, but rather the exhibition should remain in the child's memory as an event full of sensations, observations and activities. - To organize the treats in such a manner that the offered experience should not just hang in the air in itself but in some way it should have some practical value in everyday life. - To convey during the programs such general and complementary knowledge that is not available at school (for want of time, implements, etc.) i.e. we tried to offer some interdisciplinary knowledge. Let the children forget about the boundaries separating in their minds the various compulsory subjects by showing them the secret of discovering that there are relations connecting these subjects and by encouraging them to make comparisons between the bits of knowledge they acquired during the various lessons at school. - To have the children prepare objects or drawings they can take home, to remind them later of the exhibition and of the experience and information they gained there. We have discussed during the programs (the manner of presentation always depended on the targeted age group) the notion of picture carpet, the various weaving techniques, the spirit of the Artists' Colony of Gödöllő. To conclude, we always made up some playful activity. For children of kindergarten and primary school age, the subject usually was Sleeping Beauty and Prince Argirus. For the bigger schoolchildren, it was some legend or mythological subject taken from the field of the common European cultural heritage (Cassandra, Tom the Rhymer, Klára Zách, Csongor and Tünde, Toldi); and also the Hungarian legends dealing with the origins of the Hungarian people (Hunor and Magor, Attila) finally, the Hun cycle of legends.