List of toy museums
A toy museum can be found in the following locations :
Museums in the countries
Germany
- Aschersleben : GDR toy museum Aschersleben
- Bad Kissingen : World of toys in the Obere Saline museum
- Bad Münstereifel : Bad Münstereifel wooden toy museum
- Beilngries : Toy and figure museum "in the past" (Beilngries)
- Coburg : Doll and toy museum
- Coesfeld : Historical toy and doll museum
- Freinsheim : Historical toy museum Freinsheim
- Grefrath : Toy Museum (place of exhibition: Niederrheinisches Freilichtmuseum )
- Hagnau am Bodensee : The Small Museum
- Hamburg : Toy Museum (Hamburg)
- Hasselbach : Toy Museum Kunsterbunt
- Ilmenau : GDR Toy Museum Ilmenau (2009–2015)
- Judenbach near Sonneberg : Judenbach Foundation, mechanical toys
- Ingolstadt : Toy Museum
- Kevelaer : Niederrheinisches Museum for Folklore and Cultural History
- Klessen-Görne : toy museum in Havelland
- Leipzig : Mitspielzeugmuseum (Leipzig)
- Munich : Pedal Car Museum , Toy Museum (Munich)
- Neustadt bei Coburg : Museum of the German Toy Industry
- Nuremberg : Toy Museum (Nuremberg)
- Rauenstein : Schildkröt Puppet Museum
- Schleswig : Dr. Gunkel in the Schleswig City Museum
- Sebnitz : Model railway museum of TILLIG Modellbahnen GmbH & Co. KG
- Seiffen : Erzgebirge Toy Museum Seiffen
- Solingen : Doll, Bear and Toy Museum Solingen
- Soltau : Toy Museum Soltau
- Sonneberg : German Toy Museum
- Steinhude : Steinhude fishing and weaving museum with toy museum
- Trier : Trier Toy Museum
- Zirndorf : Zirndorf Municipal Museum
Estonia
Great Britain
- Pollock's Toy Museum , Paper Theater , London
- The Bear Museum , Teddy Bear Museum (1984-2006)
- Brighton Toy and Model Museum , in Brighton , Sussex
- Museum of Childhood (London)
- The Museum of Childhood (Edinburgh) , on the Royal Mile , Edinburgh , Scotland
India
- Shankar's International Dolls Museum , Delhi (1965)
Italy
- Gardena Toy Museum , in South Tyrol, shows a rich collection of wooden toys and jointed dolls from the 19th and first half of the 20th century.
Japan
- The World Toy Museum, Karuizawa , Nagano
Lithuania
Austria
Poland
- Muzeum Zabawek in Kudowa Zdrój
- Muzeum Zabawek in Krynica Zdrój
Portugal
- Museu do Brincar in Vagos
- Museu do Brinquedo in Sintra
- Museu do Brinquedo Português in Ponte de Lima
- Caramulo Museum , the automobile and art museum in Caramulo also has a toy collection
Romania
- Muzeul de Jucării (Toy Museum) in Bucharest
Russia
- Russia-Sergiev Posad-Toys Museum (Russian Музей игрушки; 1918) Moscow
- Toy Museum (Russian Санкт-Петербу́ргский музе́й игру́шки), Saint Petersburg
Sweden
Switzerland
- Lucerne Dollhouse Museum
- Zurich Toy Museum
- Toy museum in Riehen
- Museum Lindengut , Winterthur (local history museum with separate toy collection)
- Wattenwil toy museum
- Toy Worlds Museum Basel
Spain
- Museo Valenciano del Juguete de Ibi (Alicante)
- Museo de figuras de Sepúlveda (Segovia)
- Museu del Joguet de Catalunya - Figueres (Girona)
- Museo de Juguetes de Albarracín (Teruel)
- Museu d'Història de la Joguina - St. Feliu de Guixols (Girona)
- Museo de los Soldaditos de Plomo (Valencia)
- Museo de Muñecas de Palma (Mallorca)
- Museo de Juguetes y Autómatas , in Verdú, Catalonia
Turkey
- Istanbul Toy Museum , Goztepe
Ukraine
- State Toy Museum in Kiev
United States
- American Toy Marble Museum , Akron , Ohio (2002)
- Toy and Plastic Brick Museum , Bellaire , Ohio (2006)
- National Farm Toy Museum , Dyersville , Iowa
- Strong - National Museum of Play , New York , with the National Toy Hall of Fame
- Teddy Bear Museum of Naples , Florida (1990-2005)
See also
Web links
Commons : Toy museums - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andre Hess: End of nostalgia: Museum for GDR toys closes . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Thüringer Allgemeine , June 5, 2015, accessed on March 11, 2017.
- ^ Website of the Lucerne Dollhouse Museum
