For Play: an exhibition of antique toys at the Museum of Rome

From July 25, 2020, to Jan. 10, 2021, the Museum of Rome opens its doors to Per Gioco, an exhibition focusing on the valuable collection of antique toys recently acquired by the Capitoline Superintendency, and its exhibition itinerary aims to foster an exhibition that emphasizes the relationship between toys and everyday objects, between play and real life.

The exhibition focuses on the valuable collection of antique toys recently acquired by the Capitoline Superintendency. The exhibition aims to foster an exhibition that emphasizes the relationship between toys and everyday objects, between play and real life.

The large exhibition spaces of Palazzo Braschi thus illustrate the evolution of the collection over the century, thus following a chronological path, with thematic focuses that evoke moments of everyday life: the city and the country (castles with toy soldiers, farms and arks with animals, game prints, views and paintings, magic lanterns), street and sky (the games in theoutdoors, sports such as croquet, velocipedes and bicycles, scooters and sleds, airplanes and gliders, marbles, spinning tops, hoops, jumping ropes, stick horses, kites, and hot air balloons) the family (the domestic interiors with dolls, doll houses, rocking horses, small theaters, dresses, miniature tableware, china sets and various furniture, always small, board games, puzzles, and books), work (the games inspired by the various activities of a pre-industrial economy or the dawn of industrial civilization and that developed craft, artistic and domestic skills in children: spinning mills, looms, electric motors, kitchens, construction and mechanized games); travel (traveling circus with automata and trains - as the size of the wagons had to conform to circus carriages at some point - car races, carriages, fun fairs and ships).

For all information you can visit the museum’s official website.

For Play: an exhibition of antique toys at the Museum of Rome

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