Exhibition-game library from the series "Board Games" in St. Petersburg Automatic translate

September 19, 2014 at 18.00 in the Exhibition Hall of the Museum of Toys will open the exhibition "Build, Fold, Assemble!" From the series "Board Games". The exhibition runs from 09/20/2014 to 10/26/2014.

Museum Address: St. Petersburg, nab. Karpovka River, 32. Tel 8 (812) 234-43-12

What is common between Lego and a pyramid of wooden rings? I really want to collect them as soon as possible! A person at any age is fascinated by combining simple elements into one whole, and the goal can be different: achieving visual or logical harmony, embodying an architectural or technical fantasy, solving an intricate task… Probably, the children built houses and laid out patterns on the sand even in prehistoric times. Folk craftsmen from different countries created classic “designers” for kids - pyramids, hollow inlay figures (including nesting dolls), building blocks of clay and wood. In modern times, such authoritative philosopher-educators as John Locke drew attention to the educational potential of these games, and in the last third of the 19th century, architectural and mechanical designers, mosaics, "Chinese" puzzles, and letter cubes were already sold everywhere in Europe. Adults at this time were carried away by the English invention - intricately cut pictures, which in Russia called the "puzel"…

At the exhibition “Build, Fold, Assemble!” Visitors will see designers, mosaics, puzzles, cubes from Holland, Austria, Great Britain, Belgium, issued from the late 19th century to the 1980s. Including the products of famous German companies: the architectural set of the legendary Anker brand, which was played by the children of the last Russian tsar, the technical designers of Matador and Marklin of the pre-war era. And on the gaming tables, children and adults are waiting for 15 modern games provided by GaGaGames. Witty and exciting, everyone will like these “gatherings”!