İstanbul Toy Museum
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İstanbul Toy Museum
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 Location of Istanbul Toy Museum
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| Established | April 23, 2005 |
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| Location | Göztepe, Istanbul, Turkey |
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| Type | Toy museum |
| Owner | Sunay Akın |
| Public transit access | Bus, suburb train |
| Website | www |
The İstanbul Toy Museum (Turkish: İstanbul Oyuncak Müzesi) is a toy museum located in the Göztepe neighbourhood of Kadıköy district of 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 actually the site of the Eyüp Toy Shop, a famous toy shop that had closed down in the 1950s.
Akın has indicated that the word "museum" originates etymologically from the name for the daughters of Zeus, the "muses"; on this basis, he suggests that the aim of the museum is to furnish a visitor with inspiration.[1]
In 2012, the museum was nominated and shortlisted for the annual European Museum Academy Children’S Museum Award (see report below).
Admission and location
- Museum hours
The museum is open on
- weekdays 9:30-18:00
- weekends 9:30-19:00
It is closed on Mondays.
- Address
Ömerpaşa Caddesi, Dr. Zeki Zeren Sokak 17
Göztepe-Kadıköy
Istanbul
(The museum is accessible by train and several buses)
Phone: 0(216) 359 4550 (2 lines)
Gallery
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MuzeumhracekIstanbul AntoineExupery.JPG
Plane toy based on a real plane P-38 in which Antoine de Saint Exupery died
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MuzeumhracekIstanbul LehmanToyFactory.JPG
Toy produced by a famous toy produceer Ernst Paul Lehmann
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MuzeumhracekIstanbul mattel sultansulejman.JPG
Sultan Suleyman with his wife Hürrem, produced by Mattel
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MuzeumhracekIstanbul prezidentiusa figurky.JPG
Figurines of American presidents
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MuzeumhracekIstanbul hitler.JPG
Second World War, Germany 1933-1940
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MuzeumhracekIstanbul disney.JPG
Disney collection
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MuzeumhracekIstanbul reznik.JPG
Dollhouse - butcher, Germany 1900
External links
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