Why is the time running so fast? I often hear the question. I want to go back to childhood. But you have the opportunity to return to childhood if you visit the museum of toys in Prague. Here are collected toys from all over the world, from ancient Greek period and ending with modern copies of Barbie dolls. I have been lucky enough to visit this toy museum. When you walk into this museum, you are immediately overwhelmed by all of the faces staring back at you. Most of the dolls and puppets are in cases, and as you wander through the halls, you get this creepy feeling of their eyes following you as you go. The puppets are fascinating. Once upon a time, puppet shows traveled throughout the countryside, entertaining the masses just like the movies do today. Puppet shows were also a vehicle to bring news of the current events and developing politics of the cities to those in the countryside. It is fascinating to see the development of these puppets through the ages. Just like the cultures , the puppets changed facial expressions, clothing and accessories. The museum showcases toys from the last 150 years including intricate toys made oftin and toy clocks that really work.Children love technological toys no matter what age they live in. The Barbie doll collection here needs to be seen to be believed. Hundreds of Barbie dolls live in their own separate room of the museum. They range from the first Barbie who debuted in 1959 and stands alone in her own case, the beach Barbies of the Sixties and Seventies, with their pop-up campers, Dream Houses, and convertibles, to the glitzy, glamorous Barbies of today. The most profound image I took away from the Barbie collection was the development and the various use of plastics from those early years to today. In conclusion, Toy museums are popular for two reasons, they show an aspect of a culture that an art or history museum may not address, but more important, they take the visitors back to their own childhood when they see the toys that they played with when they were young, awaking their imagination again in ways not known for years.
Why is the time running so fast? I often hear the question. I
want to go back to childhood. But you have the opportunity to
return to childhood if you visit the museum of toys in Prague. Here
are collected toys from all over the world, from ancient Greek
period and ending with modern copies of Barbie dolls. I have been
lucky enough to visit this toy museum. When you walk into this
museum, you are immediately overwhelmed by all of the faces staring
back at you. Most of the dolls and puppets are in cases, and as you
wander through the halls, you get this creepy feeling of their eyes
following you as you go. The puppets are fascinating.Once upon a
time, puppet shows traveled throughout the countryside,
entertaining the masses just like the movies do today. Puppet shows
were also a vehicle to bring news of the current events and
developing politics of the cities to those in the countryside. It
is fascinating to see the development of these puppets through the
ages. Just like the cultures , the puppets changed facial
expressions, clothing and accessories. The museum showcases toys
from the last 150 years including intricate toys made oftin and toy
clocks that really work.Children love technological toys no matter
what age they live in.The Barbie doll collection here needs to be
seen to be believed. Hundreds of Barbie dolls live in their own
separate room of the museum. They range from the first Barbie who
debuted in 1959 and stands alone in her own case, the beach Barbies
of the Sixties and Seventies, with their pop-up campers, Dream
Houses, and convertibles, to the glitzy, glamorous Barbies of
today. The most profound image I took away from the Barbie
collection was the development and the various use of plastics from
those early years to today.In conclusion, Toy museums are popular
for two reasons, they show an aspect of a culture that an art or
history museum may not address, but more important, they take the
visitors back to their own childhood when they see the toys that
they played with when they were young, awaking their imagination
again in ways not known for years.
