The THAI RUBIK PLAY INSTINCT: PLAY FOR REAL exhibition at Museum Siam delves into the profound human instinct to play, redefining it as a vital, lifelong engine of creativity, identity, and imagination.
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Designed with sustainability in mind, the exhibition features eco-conscious modular structures as its furniture.
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The exhibition is divided into four zones. Awakening the Instinct to Play revisits childhood memories where everyday objects such as cardboard boxes and sticks transformed into imaginative toys, illustrating that play is the earliest form of worldbuilding and experimentation.
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Playful, but Real, explores how toys reflect and shape societal norms, ideologies, and values. Featured items include Barbie dolls, Monopoly, teddy bears, Tamagotchi, wooden folk toys, military figurines, and tin toys, each unpacks complex cultural meaning.
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Play Becomes Real, discover real-life stories of individuals who transformed their love of play into professions or social innovations, include a model train town architecture, a creative art toy artist who create Himmapan Marshmallow trend and Therod Play, an intricate wooden toy, reimagined as a modular, eco-friendly structure for exhibitions and funeral altars.
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Toys in the Memories reflects on favorite childhood toys and their role in shaping imagination, relationships, and identity through silhouettes and interactive prompts. The exhibition ends with talks and workshops highlighting that toys are more than playthings
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The THAI RUBIK PLAY INSTINCT: PLAY FOR REAL exhibition rediscover the significant role of play. Running from June 10 to September 28. This free exhibition is open daily from 10am to 6pm (closed on Mondays) at Temporary Exhibition Rooms 1–3, at Museum Siam (MRT Sanam Chai Station, Exit 1).
