Easter eggs at Äänekoski Art Museum

A pysanka (Ukrainian Easter egg) is decorated with traditional folk patterns using a wax-resistant method, a process similar to batik. The word pysanka comes from the verb pysaty "to write", as the patterns aren't painted on but written with the beewax. 

As the Ukrainian Easter eggs these typical Hungarian Easter eggs are also written with the beewax but dyed only in red. Patterns come from the local flora & fauna, from ancient agricultural tools as for example rakes.

Äänekoski Art Museum shows you this Easter (17.3.-10.4.2015) tens and tens (or should I say hundreds and hundreds?) of Hungarian Easter eggs as the huge Easter wreath as such contains already hundred (100) red Hungarian eggs and the wreath is only one showpiece of the totality of 21 pieces to be admired at the exhibition. All eggs are "written" by a group of four local artistic women who made a field trip to Hungary in order to study "how to write eggs in a Hungarian way".