You are no longer a child, but you are not indifferent to toys? There is nothing surprising. According to scientists, toys are an integral part of any culture, awakening in us a craving for free creativity and aesthetics. Therefore, items of childish fun eventually move from private homes to exhibition shelves and become exhibits. A great example of this is the Toy Museum in Moscow, located in the possession of the Izmailovsky Kremlin. It has over 4,000 items in its collection.
Childhood is a time of joyful surprise of life, not burdened by practicality, a time of insatiable craving for knowledge, deep and strong faith in miracles. Isn't that what true happiness is all about? By visiting the Toy Museum in Moscow, you will touch the fragile magical world, become its hero.
Warm old beauty
The peculiarity of the museum in Izmailovo lies in the fact that here a centuries-old ribbon of folk crafts unfolds before the visitor. This is a rare chance to enjoy the beauty of Dymkovo, Kargapol, Bogorodsk, Filimonov, Polkhov-Maidan painted creations, to seetouching samples of cloth, straw, wooden toys.
The visual tour will be complemented by an interesting story by the museum curators about the history of Russian toys.
It's great that you can take the exhibits, turn them in your hands and play with them. And having held the fun of distant antiquity in your hands, you want to create something similar yourself. Some things seem completely unfamiliar, and instruction is needed to play with them. Svayka, ryukha, head over heels - well, what will these names say to a modern schoolchild? But these are Russian traditional toys that both children and adults had fun with.
See, touch, create
At the service of visitors - workshops on making and painting. You can build a birch bark or bast toy, paint a clay horse, a whistle or a wooden nesting doll. And you will create your work strictly according to the canons of the chosen technique, and then take it with you, surprise your friends. The workshops are so popular that you should sign up for them in advance.
To get to this amazing museum, you need to get to the Partizanskaya metro station, cross the square, enter the pedestrian zone, which will lead to the Izmailovsky Kremlin.
Adventures in Dollland
The Museum of Folk Toys with the glorious name "Zabavushka" is considered young. It arose in 1998 on the basis of the Tradition Society of Folk Art Lovers. Here visitors can admire works from 15 Russian regions. Khludnevskaya, Romanovskaya,Fedoseevskaya, Abashevskaya, Dobrovskaya and other toys made of wood, bast, clay, birch bark and shreds are in the public domain. You can play fairy tales with them. Excursions for young visitors - interactive, playful and thematic. You can find Zabavushka in Moscow on 1st Pugachevskaya Street in building 17, Preobrazhenskaya Ploshchad metro station.
Nostalgia
Soviet-era toys found shelter in the Moscow City Palace of Children's Creativity: rubber and celluloid baby dolls, dolls, elephants, cubs, kittens, hippos, cardboard and wooden horses, metal cars, plastic boats, miniature furniture and dishes for dolls, popular at that time toy scales, irons and gas stoves, troops of tiny plastic soldiers and, of course, fur animals.
Just like today, the children of the Soviet era rejoiced at toys - the heroes of their favorite fairy tales and cartoons: Malvina and Pinocchio nod fervently from the shelves, the beautiful Snow Queen looks haughtily, Little Red Riding Hood looks shyly, three brave little pigs smile.
Collects and constantly replenishes the collection of the researcher Sergei Romanov. This toy museum in Moscow enjoys a special love among visitors: those who once looked after the same plush animals and gave water from a tiny set of dolls come here. And modern kids have something to be surprised at: toys of the past fascinate with the fact that each has its own character, mood.
The museum is located on Kosygin Street, house 17, stationmetro station "Universitet".
Wind of a bygone era
Another toy museum in Moscow, whose address coincides with the location of the Detsky Mir on Lubyanka store (Teatralny proezd, 5), also attracts guests with the breath of the memorable era of the USSR. The exhibition cabinets basically contain toys made only before 1991.
from the GDR, from where golden-haired German dolls were brought to the Union.
"Toy Museum in Moscow" is a multifaceted concept. Here you can surely include a collection of unique dolls on Pokrovka, 13, and the Lego Megabricks Museum at the Electronics Center on Sharikopodshipnikovskaya 13, and other collections that invite you to the wonderful universe of childhood.
