Toy Museum - Come Rediscover Our Roots by Reviving the Games.
Games are essential for the growth of a man right from his childhood. There are games for both indoors and outdoors. The earliest precursor of modern chess is a game called chaturanga, which flourished in India by the 6th century, and is the earliest known game to have two essential features found in all later chess variations CHESS give intellectual training for the player.
Many of the spiral games were produced during the 18th and 19th centuries as a means of teaching children history, geography, botany and other subjects. Most primitive games are known in almost all parts of the world but their variations tell us about the nature of the people of that particular region. The permanent fascination of games lies simply in the pure joy of playing. It is this tangible pleasure that distinguishes the true game from the professional sport.
The light-hearted joy of games has given way to competition and it would not be good unless it remains a healthy one. In hot or cold climes, in open spaces or countryside or crowded city, slums, streets, children jump, run, hide, chase each other, play, sing and laugh, and this illustrates the universality of games. By means of games, the child is engaged not only in self-discovery, explorative and experiments with its senses, but also understands its relation with the concept of Universe. They gradually learn to get along with the big world outside. Games reflect the ideas and the personality of the child as a whole.
Many of the spiral games were produced during the 18th and 19th centuries as a means of teaching children history, geography, botany and other subjects. Most primitive games are known in almost all parts of the world but their variations tell us about the nature of the people of that particular region. The permanent fascination of games lies simply in the pure joy of playing. It is this tangible pleasure that distinguishes the true game from the professional sport.
The light-hearted joy of games has given way to competition and it would not be good unless it remains a healthy one. In hot or cold climes, in open spaces or countryside or crowded city, slums, streets, children jump, run, hide, chase each other, play, sing and laugh, and this illustrates the universality of games. By means of games, the child is engaged not only in self-discovery, explorative and experiments with its senses, but also understands its relation with the concept of Universe. They gradually learn to get along with the big world outside. Games reflect the ideas and the personality of the child as a whole.
What inspired to start this museum?
Right from my childhood I was very curious about traditional toys and games I use to play with them but at the same time I also like to nurture and collect them, luckily my grandfather late chandrakantbhai was an artist and he had collected many of the traditional temple toys and he use to buy me many folk toys he was the source of my inspiration – right from my childhood I was surrounded by a rich culture, Art design and handicrafts all around me – which lead me to pursue my carrier into Arts at Baroda Fine Arts M.S. University and Culture and Heritage Management from Toronto Centennial college which had helped shape this museum.
How did you manage to find, collect of your museum and any difficulty in the initial stages?
It all started when I was a kid infect before that as I inherited a collection of my grandfather of temple toys and many other.
During this process of collecting toys I had a mix experience as to collect toys is the toughest thing! where the local antique dealers never like to collect Indian traditional toys they have only tin metal toys which were made from other countries, so I have spread a word of mouth and that’s how I was able to manage to collect this collection but many of the toys are folk art so being an artist I use to go to many melas and there-were i use to find those craftsman’s who use to create them I have observed many toy makers have stop making those traditional toys and some of the toy-maker's were too old and the generation after them don’t want to pursue their carrier into toy-making.
During this process of collecting toys I had a mix experience as to collect toys is the toughest thing! where the local antique dealers never like to collect Indian traditional toys they have only tin metal toys which were made from other countries, so I have spread a word of mouth and that’s how I was able to manage to collect this collection but many of the toys are folk art so being an artist I use to go to many melas and there-were i use to find those craftsman’s who use to create them I have observed many toy makers have stop making those traditional toys and some of the toy-maker's were too old and the generation after them don’t want to pursue their carrier into toy-making.
What kind of people do you get at your museum?
I see lots of researchers from all around the world – school & college students - local people – we receive at least 10 to 30 in between visitors every day.
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