Facelift for most fun museum in the country: Toy Museum Mechelen
After 42 years, Toy Museum Mechelen has moved. At its new location in the city, some of the emphasis has shifted from the traditional looking at toys in display cases to actively discovering, experiencing and playing. Fun for young and old guaranteed!
Those who have never been to Toy Museum Mechelen know where to go. The permanent exhibition includes a wonderful and carefully selected heritage collection with which generations here from the Middle Ages to the 21st century have played, or continue to. You will receive detailed explanations of all aspects of the topic. But from now on, the museum is also pulling the (playing) card of interactivity. Learn while playing by experiencing for yourself, alongside watching and listening. A state-of-the-art approach that numerous visitors will no doubt appreciate. Through information screens and your personal wristband, you dive headlong into the event. For example, have a Rubik's cube introduce itself. Practise your own playing skills. Or why not dress up in the fitting room as the policeman from the display case?
There is no shortage of classics in all shapes, sizes and colours. What games made from wood, bone, tin, bronze, silver, glass, fabric, porcelain or plastic can you find in the display? Perhaps balls, kites, rocking horses, humming tops, fairy tale figures, bears and other stuffed animals, dolls for the girls and cars, tin soldiers, cowboys and Indians for the boys, farm animals, guns and other toys with or without mechanics ... Or what board games? Game of the Goose, tiddlywinks, dominoes, shuffleboard, or Man, Don't Get Angry ... To round things off, a game of can throwing is great fun. Please note that the idea is to aim the ball at the pile of cans and not at a fellow player's head if, for example, you've got very annoyed after a game of Man, Don't Get Angry.