İstanbul Toy Museum (İstanbul Oyuncak Müzesi)

İstanbul Toy Museum (İstanbul Oyuncak Müzesi)

Overview:

• It was founded by the Turkish poet and writer “Sunay Akın” in 2005.

• The museum is located in the Asian side of the city in the Göztepe district of Kadıköy.

• It contains more than 10,000 toys collected from all over the world and from different historical periods. This diverse collection will, of course, please any visitor from any age group.

• The museum takes you on a journey to the past and not any past. It is the past of a lost childhood that it is always fun to return to where you can see what your parents were playing with or even watch a toy that you liked when you were young and see closely the value of the craftsmanship with which the toys were made in the past.

Architectural description:

• The museum consists of a four-storey wooden building. The first floor contains a variety of toys offered for sale.

• The museum is an old white wooden palace. At the entrance, you will find two large giraffes welcoming you.

Historic overview:

• This museum contains 200-year-old toys that were collected from Germany, France, Turkey and other countries.

• From these toys, the oldest toy in the museum, which was made in France in 1817, other toys from America dating back to 1860, and porcelain toys from Germany that are 100 years old.

• In short, the Toy Museum in Istanbul is a unique pleasure for all family members, as the originality of history merges with the innocence of childhood.

Resources:

Urtrips website

Adwhit website

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