Toy museum

Toy museum

Toy museums are museums for toys. They typically showcase toys from a particular culture or period.

Notable toy museums around the world include:

*The Bear Museum, a teddy bear museum, founded in Petersfield, Hampshire in 1984. Closed in 2006.
*The Museum of Childhood (Edinburgh), on the Royal Mile, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
*The National Farm Toy Museum, a museum located in Dyersville, Iowa that specializes in preserving and displaying scale models, replicas, and toys based on farm equipment.
*The Museum of Toys and Automata in Verdú. Founded in 2004.
*The Northgerman Toy Museum - a toy museum in Soltau, Germany which displays historical toys and offers to try innovative modern ones. Founded in 1984.
*The Nuremberg Toy Museum - a toy museum in Nuremberg, Germany. Founded in 1971.
*Pollock's Toy Museum - a small museum in Covent Garden, London, first opened in 1956.
*Shankar's International Dolls Museum, a large collection of dolls in Delhi, India, opened in 1965.
*Strong - National Museum of Play - a Smithsonian affiliate in Rochester, New York, founded in 1982, that documents the history of play in American culture. It includes the National Toy Hall of Fame - a hall of fame for popular toys, opened in 1998.
*The Teddy Bear Museum of Naples - a teddy bear museum, which opened in 1990 in north Naples, Florida, and closed in 2005.
*The Istanbul Toy Museum - a small museum founded in 2005, and located in the Göztepe district of Istanbul, Turkey, in the garden of the Eyüp Sultan Mosque.
*The Tartu Toy Museum opened on 29 May 1994 in Tartu, Estonia. On 13 March 2004 a new permanent exhibit was opened, including a playroom and crafts room. On 2 December 2005 the exhibit of movie- and theatre puppets was opened in the former coach house in the museum’s courtyard.
*The Brighton Toy And Model Museum, in Brighton, Sussex, England, has an extensive collection of toy and model trains, as well as many other toys, dolls, construction models and military dioramas.
*The Toy Town Museum is located in East Aurora, New York, the home of Fisher-Price. It is located on the Fisher-Price campus but operates as an independent entity.


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