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German Toy Museum (Deutsches Spielzeugmuseum)

German Toy Museum (Deutsches Spielzeugmuseum)

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Location: Thuringia, Germany

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1. Small Biotope Rest Area – Lutherhaus Sonneberg loop from Sonneberg (Thür) Hbf

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2. Sonneberg Town Hall – Little Königssee loop from Sonneberg (Thür) Hbf

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3. Villa Amalie (Sonneberg) – Lower Market loop from Untere Stadt

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Günni

April 24, 2024

Founded in 1901, the German Toy Museum is the visible testimony of one of the greatest toy metropolises ever. The German Toy Museum is one of Germany's most important cultural-historical collections. Among the collection's special features are Sonneberg wooden toys from the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Franzl wandert 🥾

December 12, 2024

The German Toy Museum in Sonneberg is definitely a very special highlight when visiting the city.

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Tevion1505 (Andreas)

August 8, 2021

Sonneberg and the surrounding region developed into one of the main areas of toy manufacturing in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries. At the beginning of the 20th century, Sonneberg publishers dominated world trade and made Sonneberg a world toy city. The German Toy Museum, founded in 1901, is the visible document for one of the largest toy metropolises that has ever existed.

The German Toy Museum is one of the most important cultural and historical collections in Germany. The special features of the collection include Sonneberg wooden toys from the 18th and 19th centuries, figures made from bread dough and paper mache, dolls from Sonneberg and Thuringia, toys from ancient Egypt and classical antiquity, and toys from East Asia and Africa. In the show pieces "Gulliver in Liliput" (1843/44) and "Thüringer Kirmes" (1910) the museum preserves rare evidence of advertising by the toy industry for the world exhibitions of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The library of the museum has a considerable collection of toy sample books from the 19th century.

After completion of the overall project, visitors to the German Toy Museum can expect an exhibition complex that extends over three buildings. The plans include a generous special exhibition area. The museum's educational work as well as play and activity zones were also given more space than before. A viewing depot will house a large part of the museum objects. The future permanent exhibition will no longer follow a chronology as before, but will be presented in thematic blocks.

Source: deutschesspielzeugmuseum.de/museum.html

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Location: Thuringia, Germany

German Toy Museum (Deutsches Spielzeugmuseum)

1. Small Biotope Rest Area – Lutherhaus Sonneberg loop from Sonneberg (Thür) Hbf

2. Sonneberg Town Hall – Little Königssee loop from Sonneberg (Thür) Hbf

3. Villa Amalie (Sonneberg) – Lower Market loop from Untere Stadt

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