“TIME TRAVEL WITH TOYS” EXHIBITION BY BAHÇEŞEHİR KOLEJİ STUDENTS

Preparatory class students of Bahçeşehir Koleji Ataşehir Science and Technology High School and Bahçeşehir Koleji Ataşehir Anatolian High School are bringing the toys of the last century back to life and opening the door to the future with their designs. The “Time Travel with Toys” exhibition, organised under the guidance of the writer Sunay Akın, founder of the Istanbul Toy Museum, opens on 8 June, hosted by the Istanbul Toy Museum.

With projects carried out under the guidance of Sunay Akın, founder of the Istanbul Toy Museum, the students reinterpret toys on display at the Toy Museum, most of them handmade and each reflecting the spirit of the period in which it was made. The new toys that the students created with their visions of the future, using today’s technologies such as 3D modelling and mould making on CNC machines, act as a bridge between the past and the future.

The “TIME TRAVEL WITH TOYS” exhibition project began with a conference in which the poet and writer Sunay Akın, founder of the Istanbul Toy Museum, briefed the working groups formed by preparatory class students of Bahçeşehir Koleji Ataşehir Science and Technology High School and Bahçeşehir Koleji Ataşehir Anatolian High School on the main outlines of the work.

The students brought the revived toys that make up the exhibition to life as the result of a research study that links them to the purposes for which the original toys were made and sets out the conceptual importance of the work.

In the exhibition, the toys that the students reinterpreted and produced can be seen together with the original antique toys on display at the Istanbul Toy Museum that they used as models, open to museum visitors until 30 June.

The exhibition opens on Thursday 8 June at 15:00 and can be visited until 30 June, on weekdays from 09:30 to 18:00 and at weekends from 09:30 to 19:00, except Mondays.