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CHILDREN'S GAMES OF 2000 YEARS AGO

When you are looking for hotels in Florence you know that this is the first step to plan your vacation in this tuscan location. And if you are planning to visit Florence with your kids, now you have the opportunity to show them how kids played centuries ago. It is called Ludus in fabula: games and images from antiquity, an exhibition which gives us a truly evocative picture of the lives of children and the games they played in the remotest past of the human race. The wealth of archaeological “finds” in the Museum forms the basis of the exhibition. There are about ninety objects on show, coming for the most part from the vast Medici collections in the Museum itself. But there are still others on loan from the Museo Archeologico of Chiusi and the Cantiere delle Navi of Pisa. The centuries-old educational commitment of the Istituto degli Innocenti plays it part by giving a defining character to the exhibition, the purpose of which is to furnish new means of communication between children and their families.  The very itinerary of the exhibition traces the connection between the Museum and the Institute: in addition to the findings, the poems, the ancient texts and the games on show at the Museo Archeologico, displayed in the entrance-way of the Institute is a small bronze Herakles dating from Roman times, showing him in the act of strangling serpents. The subject matter present in the exhibition varies from the statuettes and ex votos with which mothers implored the gods to have them give birth to healthy children, to the terracotta rattles for babies in the cradle. As regards toys in the proper sense, we range from dolls for the girls – a fragment from the Hellenistic age is on display – to toys made of bone and walnut for the boys, and even to adult pastimes, such as the Roman dice-shakers and draughtsmen, on loan from the maritime museum in Pisa. Even if the toys and games form the most intriguing aspect of the exhibition, also of great interest are the representations of childhood in antiquity. Many small bronzes from the “Antiche Collezioni Medicee” inform us that it was common practice to portray children together with Cupids, often distinguishable solely by the little wings of the latter. Images of them, together with those of Harpocrates (a version of the Egyptian god Horus, often shown with his finger to his lips, which for the Greeks and Romans meant the god of silence) were also connected with domestic cults and were never found lacking in Greek and Roman households. The visit to the exhibition is completed at the Bottega dei Ragazzi, the educational sector of the Museo degli Innocenti. The workshop entitled C'era una volta un gioco (One upon a time there was a game) the children of today can discover what children of their age played in the remote past. Ludus in fabula. Giochi e Immagini dell'Infanzia nell'Antichità. From 10 February to 8 June 2008: Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Salone del Nicchio, Piazza Santissima Annunziata, Florence. Opening hours: Monday 14-19; Tuesday and Thursday 8,30-19; Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 8,30-14. Free entrance.