Toy World (Bad Kissingen)

The Toy World is a toy museum and a department in the Obere Saline Museum in Hausen (Bad Kissingen) .

history

The toy world was after two years of planning, on December 8, 2011 at the top floor of the museum's Upper Saline officially opened. It was financed with funds from the city of Bad Kissingen and the district of Lower Franconia . The architect was Andreas Pietsch from Fürth ; the historian Birgit Schmalz designed the concept .

The exhibition is based on exhibits from the collection of Hilla Schütze from Kissingen, who has been collecting wooden children's toys and picture books from all over the world for over 50 years and who has campaigned for such a toy museum .

description

The 150 m² toy world department is located on the top floor of the Obere Saline Museum. Mainly wooden toys from all over the world are shown. Another focus of the exhibition is the domestic and small-scale toy production in the Rhön, such as wooden toys from the production of Friedrich Meinel or the model buildings of the company RS (Dr. Rudolf Spitaler) .

In the exhibition space from Hilla's toy box are special and temporary exhibitions presented.

In addition to the visual presentation in dark rooms with black walls and illuminated exhibition cabinets, there is additional information about several listening stations.

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  Old puppet theater , painted by Heinz Kistler (1912-2004), the "painter of the Rhön"

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  Wooden horses from Sonneberg

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  Wooden jumping jacks from Oberammergau

literature

• State office for non-state museums in Bavaria (ed.): Museums in Bavaria - A guide through the Bavarian museum landscape. 6th, completely revised edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-422-07382-1 , p. 44.
• Franziska Zeisner (text), Stephanie Crivaro (illustrations): Bello in the SpielZeugWelt. City of Bad Kissingen, Bad Kissingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-934912-13-7 .

Web links

Commons : Toys World (Bad Kissingen)  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Toy world . In: BadKissingen.de
• Toy world . In: Museen.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Friendship award from the Far East for Hilla Schütze ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in: Main-Post from October 20, 2011 
2. Jump through the museum with Bello in: Main-Post from August 4, 2011

Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '18.04 "  N , 10 ° 4' 10.04"  E