Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in the Regional Museum of Jagodina, was a day reserved for the creative workshop Magic Jar, within the manifestation “Museums for 10”.
The museum team led by archaeologist Sonja Perić encouraged the youngest, but faithful visitors of the museum to play with bottles and jars and make decorative or useful objects from them.
After a two-year break, the museum continues the practice of organizing educational and creative workshops, which have always been gladly and well attended. Whoever comes to our workshop once, continues to come in the future and tells the story of good fun and inspiring time spent in the museum. And the workshops are mostly different and serve to encourage children and their parents to organize similar activities at home to spend time together and playing.
New decorative items were created from discarded jars and bottles, with the murmur of children and the clatter of glass, using collage papers, beads, tinsels, shells, pebbles, coffee grains, rice and cereals. Apart from the children, the older also took part in the workshop, reviving the playful spirit, returning to their childhood, when playing was their only obligation.
At the gallery of the museum, in the ambience of the current exhibition “Birth of Glassmaking in Serbia”, new, cheerful and colorful objects were created from recycled glass packaging. Rejected glass got its new role, and children and their proud parents took these “new works of applied art” with them, to decorate th eir homes and keep their valuables and secrets.
