Nuremberg Toy Museum facts for kids
The Nuremberg Toy Museum (also known as Lydia Bayer Museum) in Nuremberg, Bavaria, is a municipal museum, which was founded in 1971. It is considered to be one of the most well known toy museums in the world, depicting the cultural history of toys from antiquity to the present.
Exhibitions
The collection, which contains around 87,000 objects, of which only about five percent are visible in the museum, spans the time from antiquity to the present. It focuses on the development of the toy over the past two hundred years. The great majority of the toys are located in the museum depot, but can also be viewed on the museum's website, which gives an overview of the cultural history of the toy. Nuremberg's special role as a metropolis of toys in the industrial age becomes particularly apparent due to the local toy industry.
Permanent exhibitions and other exhibition spaces
- Outdoor area
- Café La Kritz with backyard railroad
- Outdoor playground, Shadowland (rope net pyramid, rolling ball sculpture, labyrinth, distorting mirror)
- First floor
- In the Beginning was the Wood: wooden toys
- Special exhibitions/event room for temporary exhibitions
- Shop
- Second floor
- Dolls, dollhouses: Nuremberg kitchens or doll's kitchens, paper and tin figures
- Optical toys: zograscope, the magic lantern or the stereoscope.
- Third floor
- World of Technology: a large model railway layout, numerous vehicles, trains, steam engines, movable figures and more technical toys
- Top floor
- Toys since 1945: Lego, Barbie, Playmobil and more current toys
- The newly built kids’ area Kids on top offers a wide range of activities. Children can play, do handicrafts, play table-top football, experiment with various construction sets or read children’s books.