"View from childhood" in the St. Petersburg Museum of Toys

The worship of bread and ritual baking trace their history from the beginning of agriculture. The images of the "edible toys" we know - curly gingerbread, cookies, pies - go back to the days when the round cake became a symbol of the sun, and figures made of dough were replaced by sacrificial animals.

Holiday baking.
A look from childhood.

ST. PETERSBURG MUSEUM OF TOYS
12/21/2012 - 02/03/2013

Baked in antiquity for the holidays, the seasons, primarily to the Solstice, in our time they accompany any celebrations associated with the transition of a person to a new state. In Europe, curly baked goods are presented at weddings, name days, christenings, for Easter. But still in European cities it smells the most of all the fragrant gingerbread on New Year and Christmas.

The exhibition features exhibits from Western and Eastern Europe: gingerbread cookies, baking dishes, gift wrapping, pictures for decoration, the themes of which are associated with biblical and fairy tales, and even a real gingerbread house, created according to German tradition.

Against this colorful background, the traditional ritual products of the Russian North amaze with their monumental rigor and pagan symbolism: silhouette gingerbread cookies, gingerbread cookies, roe-deers. Such archaism puts Russian holiday pastries in a place of honor among European "relatives".

At the exhibition, adults will learn the history of gingerbread cookies and other curly treats, and children will be able to roll out the dough themselves, cut out gingerbread cookies and read the tale of the gingerbread house.

During the New Year holidays, the Museum will host master classes.

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