Prague Toy Museum reappears in childhood

However, after seeing the famous museums in Europe such as the British Museum, the Louvre, and Uffizi, I am somewhat tired of aesthetics. When I arrived in Prague, I was caught in the tangle of watching or not watching, I was afraid I would miss something. The encounter with the toy museum is purely accidental. Hidden in the corner of Prague Castle, a small man model on the wall tweeting me to attract me. The toy museum, the second largest in the world (the world's largest in Penang, Malaysia), is hidden in it, with more than 1,000 Barbie dolls and thousands of children's toys! Among them, a large number of toys are private collections of Czech director and cartoonist Ivan Steiger. The museum has limited space, and only a few collections are on display. It is hard to imagine how much time, money and thoughts collectors have collected so many toys!

Nearly one hundred years of mobile toys

Everyone has a childhood, and whoever has toys, whether it is a homemade small sandbag or an expensive Transformers model. I was thrilled to see "Doll Paper" at the Hong Kong Museum. It was our childhood memories, and expensive jewelry could not be replaced. The collection of this toy museum in Prague is not for me to evoke childhood memories, but to open my eyes and see the so beautiful, exquisite and even high-tech toys in history. Unfortunately, because these toys are worth the price, the museum keeps them all in the glass cabinet, lacking demonstrations and interactions, which makes the visit fun a discount.

The size of the Toy Museum is small, but there are countless collections. Large and small models are crowded in glass cabinets, which can be dazzling. Motorcycles, gliders, small trains... Look at these toys quietly lying in the cupboard, just a small model, read the introduction to know that they are all moving, driven by spring, battery or heat. This is not new today, because families with ordinary families can buy a remote control car for their children. But the collection of this toy museum has a history of nearly a hundred years. At that time, the mobile toy was a thin product!

However, the most powerful of the mobile toys is the train station series produced by Marklin.

Marklin's products are not easy to buy in China, but in its hometown of Germany, it is almost synonymous with the train model. Marklin was founded in 1859. He started as a canned little man and started to work on a railroad train in 1891. The Toy Museum has collected the earliest trains of Marklin and witnessed its transition from steam drive to clockwork drive. In addition to the train, Marklin also produces a range of related products, such as train stations, railway signal lights, railway station signs, railways, flight attendants, and of course passengers carrying luggage. In the early 20th century, Marklin began to produce scaled-down products, with specifications of 1:32 and 1:87, and all models were made in strict accordance with the actual size.

The Toy Museum houses the Leipzig train station that was made by Marklin in 1919 and is the largest railway station. The stone floors, windows, big clocks, tiled roofs, pavilions and pagodas in the entrance hall are all finely crafted. Pedestrians in front of the entrance hall, each person's action posture is not the same, or step forward, or stand on the hips; each person's clothing is not the same, there are suits and shoes, there are blue-collar workers. Behind the pit stop is a covered platform that can accommodate three trains at the same time. The signal lights will automatically light up when the train enters the station! There is also a waiting room behind the platform located on the hill. In addition to the trains carrying passengers, as well as water trucks, coal trucks, engineering vehicles and other models, you can imagine the busy hours of the Leipzig train station. The museum also exhibited an unknown small railway station with the French National Railways SNCF logo on the red train body. The wonderful thing is that even the billboards of the train station and the advertising for the trucks are copied as they are!