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The National Farm Toy Museum in Dyersville, Iowa jay jay the jet plane

Toy museums are museums for toys. They typically showcase toys from a particular culture or period. Some museums such as the American Museum of Natural History have toys on display in their permanent collection, but are not full-fledged toy museums and as such are not listed here. Also, organizations. such as The Doll and Toy "Museum" of NYC that hold toy collections but are not open for public viewing are not listed here. vinyls car

Notable toy museums around the world toy excavator

currently open museums

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 Verd, 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 Gztepe district of Istanbul, Turkey, in the garden of the Eyp Sultan Mosque.

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 Whistle Museum.

The Saint Petersburg Toy Museum - a non-state cultural establishment, Russia. Founded in 1997.

The Toy Washing Machine Museum www.picasaweb.google.com/toy.washing.machine.museum - an Italian Private Collection, virtual Museum Italy Founded in 2004.

The Toy Museum of NY-is open wed-sunday, formally The Doll and Toy Museum of NYC, established 1999 and open to the public., www.toymuseumny.org

The Museum of Lifestyle & Fashion History is a non-profit organization that houses the small-format Barbie Museum gallery with hundreds of Barbie dolls, family members, friends and accessories on display. It was founded in 1999 and is presently located in Boynton Beach, Florida in Palm Beach County in Southern Florida.

closed museums

The Bear Museum, a teddy bear museum, founded in Petersfield, Hampshire in 1984. Closed in 2006.

The Teddy Bear Museum of Naples - a teddy bear museum, which opened in 1990 in north Naples, Florida, and closed in 2005.

The Toy Town Museum is located in East Aurora, New York, the home of Fisher-Price. It was located on the Fisher-Price campus althout it operated as an independent entity. It is currently looking for a new location.

A display of Roman toys at the Museum of Archaeology in Tarragona, Spain

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