Review article

PROTECTED IMMATERIAL CULTURAL HERITAGE OF HRVATSKO ZAGORJE

Dunja Šarić ; Muzeji Hrvatskog zagorja - Muzej "Staro selo" Kumrovec, Hrvatska

Abstract

Traditional knowledge and skills in producing licitars (decorated honey-and-dough based biscuits), candle products and children toys based on the results that followed after several years of work carried out on site during the last century's mid-Eighties were presented at the „Staro selo“ Kumrovec Museum. Permanent type exhibitions were organized with the intention to show in the most authentic manner home surroundings of craftsmen who manufactured wooden toys, licitar producing workshops, as well as counters displaying various multicolored licitar biscuit and candle products.

The imaginative master craftsmen coming from the Laz village intertwined originality into producing handmade products in the 19th century, whereas the candle-producing and licitar making crafts were brought to our country by trade routes linked with the Church, Church holidays and fair days.

By organizing exhibition presentations and displaying products made by authentic master craftsmen, experts on traditional crafts, the efforts of the museum are directed towards educating the young generations on the sustainability and continuity of rare cultural folk assets, worthy presenters of the cultural and tourist offerings of the Museum and the Krapinsko-zagorska County.

Keywords

culture, tradition; crafts, skill; licitar makers, wooden toys

Hrčak ID:

105287

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/105287

Publication date:

28.5.2013.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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