Scents, flavors, shapes - see with your hands, see with your heart, the interactive exhibition of folk art opens on October 26 in the House of Traditions. Museum pedagogue Gál Boglárka presents the exhibition, which is suitable for receiving visitors with sensory disabilities and for employment as a museum pedagogue.
"The exhibition is really special, an interactive toy library covering four topics - honey puppets, hoop whips, glazed pots, and wool tulips. With its implementation, the organizers can welcome and employ groups of children with sensory disabilities in the House of Traditions. The emphasis was not placed on the shortcomings, but rather on the number of ways we can perceive with our senses.
House of Gál Boglárka/Source/Traditions
We provide thematic sessions in the four mentioned topics. When choosing the title, it was important for us to convey that the usual 'don't touch anything' principle does not prevail at this exhibition, but you can touch the presented objects and feel them with your hands. The objects and tools of the exhibition have an effect on several of our senses, which the interested party can thus experience interactively.
The inspection is connected to the new Erasmus+ project of the House of Traditions Hungarian Folk Art Museum, within the framework of which we can further train museum colleagues on the topic of dealing with groups with sensory disabilities.
The event is the result of joint work and praises the hand of five employees. Réka Farkas leads the gingerbread baking, Aliz Bangó introduces the visitors to the secrets of pottery, István Megyeri and Zoltán Szabó are in charge of the folk music, folk dance, and shepherd sessions, and folk playhouse leader Csilla Dubinszki invites visitors to felting. It is a real novelty that visually impaired and hard of hearing children can be in a group with non-disabled children in some sessions.
Of course, the initiative has antecedents. It can be considered the prehistory of the present presentation, when the staff organized sessions for the blind - at schools and in the Museum - and we also hosted groups of children with disabilities at numerous exhibitions.
The organizers can also use the event to gain experience, and the knowledge gained here can be used in the activities of the House of Traditions."
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