Toy Museum - Notable Toy Museums Around The World

Notable Toy Museums Around The World

  • Spencer Doll and Toy Museum Spencer, North Carolina
  • The Museum of Childhood (Edinburgh), on the Royal Mile, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • The Swiss Museum of Games, in La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland.
  • 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, Catalonia. Founded in 2004.
  • The Toy and Plastic Brick Museum in Bellaire, Ohio, USA. Founded in 2006.
  • 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 Istanbul Toy Museum - a small museum founded in 2005, and located in the Göztepe district of Istanbul, Turkey.
  • 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, and construction toys, such as Meccano.
  • The Saint Petersburg Toy Museum - a non-state cultural establishment, Russia. Founded in 1997.
  • Penang Toy Museum in Penang, Malaysia displays more than 120,000 items of figures, dolls and 60 life size figures.It is the largest collection of toys in the world. It was founded in 2002 by a professional engineer.
  • The Ore Mountain Toy Museum, Seiffen, in Germany is an internationally known toy museum with a collection of unique wooden toys typical of the Ore Mountains region.
  • The Harold Bell Wright Museum/Toy Museum as known as The World's Largest Toy Museum displayed American toys from 1800s to 1990s including Star Wars and 1950 Western toys in Branson, Missouri.
  • Rhodes toy museum Greece, the first toy museum in Greece with exclusive Greek toys.
  • Tartu Toy Museum in Tartu, Estonia. Was opened in 1994 and now holds more than 20,000 items.
  • Hong Kong International Hobby and Toy Museum, was opened in 2011. Exhibits include toy cars, dolls, action figures, cartoon characters, science fiction collectibles, model rockets, Japanese anime, classic toys and more.

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