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WHERE IS THE TOYS MUSEUM IN BUCHAREST
Toys Museum in Bucharest is housed by the National History Museum on Victoria Avenue, just near the Old City. When you get to the History Museum, you will surely take a look at the Toys Museum of Bucharest because they are in the same building.
Adress: Victoria Avenue 12, Bucharest
Opening hours: Wednesday – Sunday – 10 AM – 6 PM.
BUCHAREST TOYS MUSEUM
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Description: Toys Museum at Bucharest National History Museum is closed Mondays and Tuesday
WHAT TO SEE AT BUCHAREST TOYS MUSEUM
Toys Museum Bucharest is an exhibition dedicated to toys from the 20th century. You can see toys from Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia( nowadays two countries), but also from Japan, Russia or USSR. There are more than 2,000 toys gathered by a few dedicated people who worked on this project for about 40 years without even knowing their toys will ever be exhibited. Though there are toys made about 100 years ago, most of them are from the Communist period in Romania and many of them made in Romania. We are talking about toys made behing the Iron Curtain when there was a Cold War between the Eastern Europe ruled by Russia and the Western Europe and US.
WAR TOYS AND TOYS MUSEUM BUCHAREST
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Description: Toys Museum in Bucharest is an exhibition with toys from the communist period which is from 1950 to 1980
TOYS FROM COLD WAR AT TOYS MUSEUM BUCHAREST
Many of these toys were donated to the Toys Museum Bucharest and the Association which works for the project by people who spent their childhood in the communist Romania in the 70s and 80s. Being born in 1980, I can tell you that toys were not easy to find between 1980 and 1989. It was difficult for usual people to buy such tanks, planes, heavy armoured vehicles, guns and so on, of course, made of plastic as toys, for their children. Not to mention cars or space ships. Though USSR and US were already in space, got the moon and back and so on, children in the Eastern Europe who lived under the Russin boots, could only dream at playing with such jewelry.
SPACE TOYS AT TOYS MUSEUM
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Description: Spaceships were valuable toys in the communist period due to the conquer of the moon by the Soviet Union and later by the US Star Wars project few knew about behind the Berlin wall
VISIT TICKETS AT TOYS MUSEUM BUCHAREST
To visit the Toys Museum Bucharest will have to pay 20 RON( 4 Euros), 10 RON( 2 Euros) for retired persons and 5 RON( 1 Euro) for students and people with different deficincies, with Euro 26 card.
Some children in the communist Romania were lucky and could make their own airplanes from kits brought by relatives who lived in the Western Europe or US. The others have to wait for their parents to find some airplanes and buy them from the state shops. They were rare and expensive. For example, at Toys Museum Bucharest you can see airplanes made in Japan, USSR and even Romania. To mention that a toy airplane made in Timisoara in the 60s was not secure for children. It met only half of nowadays security standards. It was about 60 RON in the period. A cake was almost 2 RON. The plane layout made in Romania as a TAROM plane( the official state company) and never flew because it was never built to fly.
AIRPLANES AT NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM
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Description: An interesting fact about airplanes toys in the late 20th century was that they were not safe at all for children
ROBOTS AT TOYS MUSEUM BUCHAREST
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Description: Robots were rather rare to find in Romania before 1990 and in the 70s they were treasures for children
If you want to visit an interesting technology museum, we invite you to the Technical Museum Bucharest where you can see even the first electric cars made almost 100 years ago.
THE HISTORY OF TOYS MUSEUM BUCHAREST
The Toys Museum Bucharest was a private project made by Cristian Dumitru, Mihai Dumitru and Cornel Ilie as coordinator and became an attraction for tourists in Romania and from abroad after 2000. There are many enthusiastic people who kept toys from the communist period which are now exhibited at the NATIONAL HISTORY MUSEUM IN BUCHAREST. From 2,000 toys, there are now about 12,000 toys children played with between 1950 and 1980 in Romania and in the Eastern Europe, but not only. For example, 80% toys produces in Romania in the communist period at Timisoara, Lugoj, Bucharest or Brasov were sold in other countries. We are talking about bikes, trains, wooden-made toys, war toys. Many of them can be seen at the Toys Museum Bucharest.
MUSICAL TOYS AT BUCHAREST HISTORY MUSEUM
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Description: Toys Museum Bucharest is hosted by the National History Museum in Bucharest
LITTLE SOLDIERS AT TOYS MUSEUM
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Description: Who was born in the 70s or 80s and would not remember the soldiers…
You can learn more about Toys Museum Bucharest on their dedicated page. For more interesting museums dedicated to children and their toys we invite you here.
