Rediscovery

This entry is about a week late. Excuse me for my tight schedules. However, I've mentioned about this place ever since I've set voyage. And here , I am going to share.

The date : Colorful Girl with Dull Boy .

Mint, Museum of Toys.

Many times we look at a place in pamphlets , all impressed with the advertising shots and flowery words decorating all over to entice you only to be disappointed after you actually set foot on that place. I know how it feels.

When my girlfriend showed me Mint's pamphlet, I was excited, yet, unsure. We promised each other to visit a museum and a museum of toys seems like a refreshing idea. I mean, since when was the last time you took out your wooden toy car and run them on the tiles of your floor and went , " ZRROOOOOMMM.. SCREEECHHHHHHHHHH" ?

Trust me, Mint will not fail you.



Okay, to suit the mood. She took the effort to get a little funky with her dressing. Appreciate it, in fact, love it. We actually had home made breakfast before setting off!




The place looked ordinary on the outside. In fact, it looked like, to me, a hotel lobby. And, that is the lift.





Walking through each gallery, you not only get to look at toys of that particular category, but also learn about their history. Like for example, I've learnt Germany, Japan and USA were once strong contenders for the World's best tin toy industry. And with that knowledge, I started to notice the difference in style and visual concepts of toys with very similar idea and mechanism. And odd as it may be sound, I felt that not only the gallery was an eye opener, it was quite an enriching one too.





Each level has its own specific category. They have :

Level 5 : Outer space. You not only get to see space ship toys, but also Star Wars life size mannequins and even ray guns.

Level 4 : Characters. Superheroes like Bat Man and Eagle Dan belong to this level. Popeye and TinTin along with many other comic book character shared this level as well.

Level 3 : Childhood Favorites : This is interesting. You get to see very old handmade wooden dolls and sewn toys.

Level 2 : Collectibles. For me, this is the most interesting level. They have a fleet of matchbox tin cars models. And this museum is not all about cartoon characters, comic super heroes, they even featured The Beatles and old movie posters like classic King Kong.



Now after visiting Mint, I kinda have an idea how a section of my future home will be like. :)



("v") The right people, the right furniture.