Saint Petersburg Toy Museum (russian: Санкт-Петербу́ргский музе́й игру́шки) is a non-state cultural establishment.
History
The
Saint-Petersburg
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Toy Museum is a member of the
Union of Museums of Russia. It was established in 1997 as a non-state cultural establishment, subsidised by private companies. It is the second museum of toys in
Russia
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after the oldest artistic-educational museum of that kind in
Sergiev Posad
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It was previously known as ''Sergiyev Posad'' (unti ...
near
Moscow
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, which treats pedagogic problems mainly.
The Saint-Petersburg Toy Museum was established as an artistic museum with the main task of collecting, storing, exposing and studying toys not only as a unique item of material culture, but also as a unique art form, that includes ancient national traditions and the most recent artistic tendencies.
The toy as an art form, existing as both a functional play-thing and an aesthetic object, inspired the collection.
However artistic toys are not the only direction of activity of the Saint-Petersburg Museum. The museum has collections of folk toys (both the Russian and foreign) and fabric toys, which are being permanently increased.
Having united artists, art critics and pedagogues around it, the Saint-Petersburg Museum takes part in working out interesting exhibition programs and artistic festivals, orientated on a broad age diapason of participators and visitors.
The Museum is not aimed purely at children, and works with other institutions to teach educational programmes.
Russian artists working in the genre of toys
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Oleg Buryan
Oleg Yuriyevich Buryan (russian: Оле́г Ю́рьевич Бурья́н; born 1959) is a Russian artist, who lived in Moscow from the 1980s. In 2012, he moved to St-Petersburg, where he joined the St-Petersburg Union of Artists. He belongs to ...
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Katya Medvedeva
Katya Ivanovna Medvedeva (russian: Екатери́на Ива́новна Медве́дева ''Ekaterina Ivanovna Medvedeva''; born 1937) is a Russian naïve painter.
Biography
Yekaterina (Katya) Medvedeva was born January 10, 1937 in t ...
See also
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List of museums in Saint Petersburg
This is a list of museums in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Biographical museums
Writers
Anna Akhmatova museums
*Anna Akhmatova Literary and Memorial Museum (Fountain House)
* Anna Akhmatova. The Silver Age (in Avtovo)
Alexander Pushkin museu ...
References
External links
ITAR-TASS: "Soviet Era Toys Displayed in St. Petersburg"*
Encyclopaedic references. New Feature Petersburg*
Saint Petersburg Toy Museum*
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Where is the house ...*
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ttp://www.weekend.ru/?action=pv&id=259817 Exhibition of the author's toys from the museum collection
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Museums in Saint Petersburg
Museums established in 1997
Toy museums