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A museum in Ibi inaugurated on 20 December 1990. Its holdings are based on a donation from Payá Cooperative workers, mainly comprising toys made in Ibi and Germany.
Six 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 storyMuseums and collections show that a toy is not merely a cherished object: it can document industry, education, consumption, gender and everyday life. A critical reading of how this material memory is preserved, displayed and contextualised.
Open storyToy museums and collections make it possible to read a society’s childhood, industry and customs. This article examines what a toy can document and why preserving it means keeping the object connected to its provenance, use and context.
Open storyToys do more than evoke an individual childhood: they make it possible to study crafts, materials, educational models, consumption and everyday life. Drawing on documented collections and exhibitions in Spain and Colombia, this analysis examines what changes when an object of play is preserved and interpreted as heritage.
Open storyA cautious reading of the changes that several museum and popular-history sources associate with Spanish toys in the 1970s: the expansion of plastic, battery- and wind-up mechanisms, broader consumption, and the continuity of figures and construction toys.
Open storyThe history of Ibi’s Valencian Toy Museum shows how a toy collection can document industrial work, design, advertising and changing ways of playing. Drawing on institutional and academic sources, this article places the museum within a Spanish network devoted to preserving toy heritage.
Open storyThe material history of Spanish toys is more than a succession of objects: collections and exhibitions help reveal changes in techniques, materials, customs and expectations of childhood.
Open storyCollections and studies of Spanish toys invite us to look beyond the object itself: at materials, industry, use and preservation. They also show where the available evidence ends and interpretation begins.
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