Scents, flavours, shapes – Look by hand, see by heart

The exhibition entitled 'Scents, flavours, shapes – Look by hand, see by heart' offers visitors with sensory disabilities an experience through four traditional crafts. The aim of the international cooperation was to create a multi-sensory museum, i.e., one that affects several of our senses.

Touchable and smellable games

In addition to the artefacts of four crafts, the exhibition includes interactive, touchable and smellable games that can be tried and illustrative tools, such as a felt memory game, a gingerbread racket-matching game, a gingerbread spice recognition game, a felt maze, and a tile pattern game that expresses emotions. The games and illustrative tools were developed and made by folk artisans and craftsmen. In addition to all this, accessible digital content also helps to process information and gain knowledge effectively.

Gingerbread making, felting, pottery and shepherding

The games related to the four topics - gingerbread making, felting, pottery and shepherding - encourage experimentation and provide an experience, while learning about decorative techniques, shapes and craft characteristics.

In connection with the exhibition, museum educational sessions help with the thematic, complex processing, thus the museum provides an interactive, experience-oriented learning opportunity, and sensitizes preschool and school age groups with typical and special educational needs through play. This museum space is a milestone in achieving our museum accessibility goals.

Hungarian Applied Folk Art Museum

The Museum of Hungarian Applied Folk Art is part of the Hungarian Heritage House currently has 10 000 objects. The collection is from the entire country and presents the history, outstanding creators, workshops and trends in applied folk art. This is the only comprehensive Hungarian collection of objects from the specializations in all traditional handicrafts. Most of the material is made up of textiles, embroideries, wood and bone carvings, and products of folk pottery, but a smaller number also includes lace, folk costume dolls, basket and woven goods, furniture, metalwork objects, leather products, blue-dyed textiles, and eggs. The museum is currently presenting itself with temporary exhibitions in the main building of the Hungarian Heritage House on Corvin square