İstanbul Toy Museum

İstanbul Toy Museum
İstanbul Oyuncak Müzesi
İstanbul Toy Museum
Location of Istanbul Toy Museum
Established	April 23, 2005 (2005-04-23)
Location	Göztepe, Istanbul, Turkey
Coordinates	40°58′33″N 29°04′15″E / 40.97593°N 29.07073°E / 40.97593; 29.07073
Type	Toy museum
Collection size	4000 toys and miniatures
Owner	Sunay Akın
Public transit access	Bus, suburb train
Website	www.istanbuloyuncakmuzesi.com

The İstanbul Toy Museum (Turkish: İstanbul Oyuncak Müzesi) is a toy museum located in the Göztepe neighbourhood of Kadıköy district in İstanbul, Turkey.

The museum was founded by the Turkish poet and novelist, Sunay Akın, in 2005. The museum opened on April 23, a national holiday in Turkey, National Sovereignty and Children's Day. Currently, the museum has on display 4,000 toys and miniatures from Turkey and abroad; many of the exhibits are antiques, some of which date back nearly 200 years. The first floor of the museum is the site of the Eyüp Toy Shop, a famous toy shop that closed down in the 1950s.

In 2012, the museum was nominated and shortlisted for the annual European Museum Academy Children’s Museum Award.^[1]

The museum is open weekdays (except Mondays), 9:30-18:00, and weekends, 9:30-19:00. It is located at Ömerpaşa Caddesi, Dr. Zeki Zeren Sokak 17, Göztepe-Kadıköy, Istanbul.

Gallery

Plane toy based on a real plane P-38 in which Antoine de Saint Exupery died
Toy produced by a famous toy produceer Ernst Paul Lehmann
Sultan Suleyman with his wife Hürrem, produced by Mattel
Figurines of American presidents
Second World War, Germany 1933-1940
Disney collection
Dollhouse - butcher, Germany 1900

External links

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Official website

References

↑ EMA 2012 CHILDREN’S MUSEUM AWARD Report

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