General informations:
Adress:
8360 Keszthely, Kossuth Lajos str. 10.
Phone:
+36 83 318-855
Web: jatekmuzeum.eu
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Open:
Monday – Sunday: 10 am – 4 pm
Toys are indispensible in all period of life and in the process of becoming a human being. Toys can be divided into different TYPES and GROUPS but after all we can set up FOUR main categories: toys in connection with tools, motion, choosing a partner and mental or intellectual ones. Our traditions, for example: folk games will not become old-fashioned and children can play them at any period and under any circumstances because their function on the one hand is to entertain children and on the other hand children will become skilful, clever and have fun. The function of playing is very versatile. The Toy Museum with its objects does not intend to bring back a dusty, old-fashioned world but we would like to rescue those elements, which meet general demands, what we still need nowadays, namely: the experience of having fun together. My passion is to collect the interesting and valuable pieces of our past and this hobby has been completed by being able to exhibit them, so this way our past and history can arouse nostalgia.
Back to childhood!
We can relive our childhood at the Vidor Toy Museum, Europe’s largest toy museum.
The exhibition, featuring 10,000 items, opened on 24 December 2010 in the pedestrian zone of Keszthely. The founder, Tibor Túri Török, a private collector, presents the fruits of his long-standing collecting career to visitors.
The most famous items in the exhibition are the toys from the Győr Tin Toy Factory from the 1960s and the soft toys from the Steiff family factory in Germany. Whilst listening to children’s songs, we can view the toys for boys and girls separately. Among the boys’ favourites, we find toy cars, Russian rockets, board games, wooden horses, as well as miniature trains and little toy soldiers.
The girls’ collection wouldn’t be complete without the dolls, mini furniture and Barbies. There are quite a few Monchichi monkeys, Walt Disney characters and teddy bears on display, as well as the well-known ‘clapping’ wooden butterflies and wooden caterpillars.
There are also children’s cars from the 1920s on display.
The works of artist Éva Zorkóczy evoke scenes from a number of well-known fairy tales.
The youngest children can watch a fairy-tale film on an old television.