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The Toy Museum opened on 18 June 1982 in the former Hotel París in Figueres.
Toy collections, exhibitions and museums make it possible to understand these objects beyond nostalgia. Drawing on sources about Spanish toy heritage, this article examines what objects can document, how museums put them in context, and the limits required by a rigorous reading.
Open storySix sources make it possible to outline, with explicit limits, several landmarks in Spanish toy history: the electric train of 1931, the interruption caused by the Civil War, Scalextric’s presence from 1952, Nancy in 1968, Madelman in 1968, and Geyperman in 1975.
Open storyA reading of Spanish toys as material heritage: from industrial collections and museum holdings to exhibitions that place them alongside their social, technological and design contexts.
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