The Collection of Traditional Children's toys consists of objects that mostly children from rural areas played with, often made by themselves or by adults who made them for them. They used materials from nature (wood, corn, chestnuts, walnuts). The second group includes toys that adults made for their children (sleighs, dolls, clothes for dolls). The third group includes the largest part of the Collection, and these are toys that are made or were made in certain villages by individuals organized in cooperatives, and today individually, are intended for sale. This group can be divided according to location (the village of Vidovec in the region of Prigorje, Laz Bistrički, Laz Stubički, Marija Bistrica, Gornja Stubica, Tugonica, Turnišće in the region of Hrvatsko Zagorje and Zelovo selo in Dalmatian Hinterland). The fourth group includes toys from certain European countries, and are in the Museum's holdings. The collection also contains wooden children's toys whose Traditional manufacturing of children’s wooden toys in Hrvatsko Zagorje was inscribed on UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009, and experts from the Ethnographic Museum also participated in the nomination process. In 2018, a bilingual catalogue of the Collection of Traditional Children's Toys was published. The first part covers the history of children's toys and their origin and production, and the second part contains a catalogue overview of the Collection. The book has 384 pages and over 800 color photos of museum objects, documents, photographs of craftsmen in the field, and children with toys.
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