Gingerbread exhibition opens in Sweden

12-18-2010 11:51 BJT

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The annual gingerbread exhibition returns to the Architecture Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. This year's event features 95 creations of the Christmas cookie from people all over Sweden.

Every year there is a theme to follow at the gingerbread exhibition. And this year's theme forced bakers to reflect on a deeply sweet meaning.

Lena Rahoult, Curator, Architecture Museum, said, "This year the theme is 'I'm home now' which is perhaps a more serious theme. Perhaps one feels root-less, one doesn't have a home or one has - as is often the case in Sweden nowadays when a person comes from another country - homes in many places. One can have the heart in one place but live in another."

Every year there is also a competition.

The gingerbread houses were divided into three categories: architects and professional bakers, children up to the age of 12, and everyone else.

This year, the professional bakers prize was awarded the gingerbread house with the theme "home is like a warm blanket."

The jury's special craftsmanship prize was won by a family that had made a "100 percent perfect" gingerbread house according to the jury.

Rahoult said the exhibition was a good way for the museum to interact with people.

Lena Rahoult, Curator, Architecture Museum, said, "It's a good idea if one wants to be interactive with visitors. It's a realistic project around which people can have thoughts and ideas in three dimensions and rooms."

The gingerbread houses will remain on show until January 9th, 2011.