🖍 Scavenger: Aslı NuhoğluIn your experience, does the museum belong to children, or to adults who do not perceive their childhood as a passing age? So how do you position the didactic structure of teaching as a field of discovery?It would not be wrong if we say that Istanbul Toy Museum is open to visitors from all age groups. In our museum, visitors of all ages can encounter a piece of themselves and stories that overlap with their interests.Not only our own toy and game history, but also the works of the common heritage of the whole world are exhibited at IOM. Everything that happened in the past, social, cultural and economic, is reflected in toys.&nbsp;For this reason, while our little visitors are visiting the museum, they learn the history of the world from the language of their closest friends, toys, in a fun and memorable way, while adults pass through a time tunnel and perhaps remember the historical events they have witnessed.The collection of the museum is quite interdisciplinary in terms of its structure since a poet and a stage designer jointly decided on its physical form. So, what kind of unity can we observe in terms of Children's Literature and toys?As you mentioned, our museum was founded by the writer and poet Sunay Akın, and every room of the museum was designed by stage design artist Ayhan Doğan. While visiting the museum, you enter a different world in each room; in the sections, the theme to be explained with audio and visual elements is supported.In the museum, the development and change in many subjects such as theater, cinema, and architecture are explained through toys. Literature is one of these subjects. In our museum, the first toy examples of fantasy heroes in literature are located.To give an example, one of the first editions of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's book The Little Prince and the first toy of The Little Prince&nbsp;can be found. You can see the toys of The Wizard of Oz, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and Don Quixote.<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/9/1/1665991216046.png" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" ratio="1.42" width="550" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">👑 Istanbul Toy&nbsp;Museum 🐭 Photographs and collage:&nbsp;Alara Demirel<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom-style: none; clear: both; -webkit-user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;">You have curated a collaborative universe with designers in the museum shop. How do you do your book selections? Are there any details that you pay special attention to in this process?The answer to this question can actually be considered as a continuation of the answer to your third question. The toys we buy for children to play with—which shape our children's futures—are just as important as the books we decide to sell. For this reason, when choosing the books offered to our visitors at IOM Store, our priority is the story, the language of expression and the visuals used. Then we pay attention to the publisher, author and illustrator of the book.We get support from experts in this field in the selection of books, and we read the books before they are offered for sale. We also take a look at whether there are elements in it that will negatively affect our children.What is the first book you remember reading or was influenced by? How do you remember it?I was born in 1981 and unfortunately there were not as many children's books and bookstores as they are today back in the day. A list of books was recommended for us to read at school and we would buy those books and read them. In those lists, Ömer Seyfettin's books were generally included.Frankly, I recall more memories with encyclopedias than the books I read in my childhood. As in every house, we had encyclopedias and we would turn their pages for research. I also liked the encyclopedias in which animals were told the most. While I was turning the pages of the encyclopedia with great curiosity and desire, I got to know other living things with whom we share the world. Now, when I think about those moments, I feel a great peace and I can understand why I love living things so much against nature.<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/9/1/1665991150152.png" width="550" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" ratio="1.42" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">🚀 Istanbul Toy Museum 👽 Photographs and collage:&nbsp;Alara Demirel<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom-style: none; clear: both; -webkit-user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;">What kind of a universe do you want to live in?After I began working at the museum, I had more conversations with the children and spent time with them. Their view of the world impressed me a lot. They are always very curious, dreamy, unprejudiced, fearless, fun, and unconstrained individuals.I would like to live in a world where all these elements exist—which will be greener, more peaceful, and full of laughter. A world full of peace and tranquility, free from prejudices, where all living things can be free without restricting anyone's freedom...

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Meet the universe of a toy historian, archaeologist, curator and exhibitor.

Scavenger Hunt #5: Aslı Nuhoğlu

🖍 Scavenger:&nbsp;<a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.instagram.com/cagri.odabasi/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Çağrı Odabaşı</a>Which was the first book you read?The first book I consciously read was The Pied Piper Of Hamelin. I learned to read on my own when I was 4 years old. A deep and silent shock wave swept through the house, I remember. At first, I was left without content for a while because my family thought this was wrong—I remember that feeling too.It's strange, but I don't remember a children's book given to me in our house until I got my first book. In 1991 Turkey, access to children's books in the country must have been quite limited.&nbsp;My mother gifted me The Pied Piper Of Hamelin on my 7-year-old birthday. The feeling that the book left me is quite different. Since it was my first gift that I read with a sense of ownership, I guess I continued as a good reader for the rest of my life. I can say that I still am.Now I think about it, it's good that I spent my childhood in the years when a book was considered a great gift. On the occasion of this good question, I searched and found the edition that was gifted to me in an online second-hand bookstore. Thank you for bringing my memory out of my childhood. ❤️<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/6/0/1658053145523.png" width="550" fr-original-style="display: block; float: none; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable" style="border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" ratio="0.80">📓 Çağrı ve kitaplarıyla yarattığı dünyası<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom-style: none; clear: both; -webkit-user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;">Which universe do you want to live in?I would really like to live in the Harry Potter universe. Only around southern France or Italy, if possible! I can imagine a world of witchcraft and wizardry in a sunnier place much brighter than the gloomy weather of the island!Although all the plot in the story takes place on the Gryffindor front, I imagine myself as a Hufflepuff person. The fact that a house that adopts hard work, justice, loyalty, and friendship, being under the chairmanship of my botanist teacher, Sprout, also inspires me.A well-behaved, introverted Hufflepuff man who lives by his own values in my own universe is a perfectly acceptable option, since I was never that popular kid in my school life, even if my grades weren't very good.Which universe is still waiting for you?The universe, which I believe is still waiting for me, is a place where the concept of border is accepted as the line where someone else's field begins, where everyone obeys the rules of living together with kindness and tolerance, where every subject regarding art is very accessible, where diversity and hard work are fed, and where tyranny is unknown.There is such a place, I feel it. And we are building it!

Which was the first book you read? What about the universe you want to live in? Which universe is still waiting for you?

Scavenger Hunt #2: Çağrı Odabaşı

✏️ Scavenger: <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.instagram.com/alarademirel1/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Alara Demirel</a> 🛝 Hunter: <a fr-original-style="" href="https://www.instagram.com/yasmiiintea/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; -webkit-user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">Yasmin Güleç</a>Which was the first book you read?I think it's a children's book called Guess How Much I Love You. My mother used to read it to me. A baby kangaroo and its mother were talking about the greatness of their love for each other. “I love you to the moon and back,” the mother was saying at the very end. It's still something my mom and dad and I say to each other. I must have read something before, but when I think of the first book I read myself, the following list comes to mind:<ul fr-original-style="padding-inline-start: 20px;" style="padding-inline-start: 20px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; list-style-position: inside; box-sizing: border-box;"><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sizinkiler,</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Le Petit Nicolas,</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dear Dumb Diary,</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Almost all of the written work by Jacqueline Wilson.</li></ul><img data-fr-image-pasted="true" src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/5/3/1656541300244.png" width="550" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" ratio="1.31" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">📖 Dear Dumb Diary<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom-style: none; clear: both; -webkit-user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;">Which universe do you want to live in? I hope you are ready for the most cliché answer to this question. You've probably already guessed it. 3.. 2.. 1… it's Hogwarts! To be a part of the adventures of the Golden Trio—Ron, Hermione, and Harry—, to be able to cast spells, to be able to save the whole school... These are very cool things.&nbsp;As much as J.K. Rowling has disappointed us all as human beings, I'm not letting her take this magical world from us. I'm most definitely reclaiming it! I would love to live in the world of Hogwarts and Harry Potter—even though I'm content with where I am right now.<img data-fr-image-pasted="true" src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/5/3/1656541921523.jpeg" width="550" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" ratio="1.26" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">🍻 The Three Broomsticks<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom-style: none; clear: both; -webkit-user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;">Which universe is still waiting for you?There are various life scenarios that attract me rather than a universe that I believe awaits me. I love to read romance books like Normal People, People We Meet on Vacation, and Çalıkuşu! The main character is always a journalist or a writer in the books I read for fun these days—a 20-year-old who is trying to build up their career, life, and love life. This world also feels close to me. At the same time, reading the books of people who lived in New York in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s—such as Patti Smith, and Joan Didion—takes me to realities that I could never be a part of, but makes me go, “I would have fit so very perfectly.” Ideally, I can see myself there. And sometimes, I don't.

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