The exhibition has been jointly produced with the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb and the Muzeum Zbawek i Zabawy, Kielce, Poland.
A selection of traditional Polish toys from the extensive holdings of the Museum of Toys and Games from Kielce (Muzeum Zabawek i Zabawy), which numbers over 10,000 items. The exhibition covers two aspects of the making of Polish toys. The first is the folk toys selected from centres in which the making of them flourishes; the other is the toys made in the cooperatives that were engaged in their production from the 1940s to the 1990s and that were a principal source of toys on the Polish market.
The holdings of the Muzeum Zabawek i Zabawy from Kielce have the biggest collection of ethnographic toys coming from all the regions of Poland. Every centre for the making of folk toys in Poland had its own tradition, customs and strategy. Polish folk toys have a long tradition and an incontestable place in the history of toy making. They are in fact at the same time an unfailing source of inspiration for later toy producers.
Exhibition devised by Aneta Bąk
Exhibition coordinated by Iris Biškupić Bašić
Exhibition curated by Lana Milošević Đerek