The Toy Museum of Catalonia offers visitors the chance to take a journey through the history of industrial toys in Catalonia. Games from your childhood or that of preceding generations: puppet theatres, cardboard horses, kitchens, balls, dolls, spinning tops, tin toys with strings, planes, cars, trains, tricycles, construction games, teddy bears, the “game of the goose” (a Spanish board game), circuses, puppets, robots and many other similar toys and games which were much loved from our exciting and imaginative times during childhood. The museum was inaugurated in 1982 and, among the 4,000 exhibited pieces from a collection of more than 17,000 games and toys, some of which had belonged to famous people such as Joan Brossa, Quim Monzó, Ernest Lluch, Salvador Puig Antich, Terenci Moix, etc. can also be seen. A space dedicated to the first twenty years of Salvador Dalí’s life, with his toys, moving postcards and photographs from his family album. The tour is accompanied by music by Pascal Comelade and Erik Satie. The Toy Museum of Catalonia received the National Prize for Popular Culture in 1999 and the Creu de Sant Jordi (St. George’s Cross) in 2007, among others.
The Figueres Toy Museum is located in the middle of the Rambla, in the building where the former Hotel Paris in Figueres used to be. This photograph shows the outbuildings of this famous café which would later become a hotel. An image from the collection of the Figueres photographer, Narcís Roget, from 1921, preserved by the Empordà Museum in Figueres. Today, some of these conserved details can be seen, such as the balconies of some of the floors, and, above all, the museum still has a poster that reminds us of its past showing the Hotel Paris.
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L'oblit no entra a les sales,
onades de records tornen els dies:
la infància no fina en tot de coses
que us vénen al davant com un tou d'herba,
cotxes, teatres, bicicletes, bitlles...
El vent desentafora i vós feu fira.
SEXTINA EN EL MUSEU DE JOGUETS DE FIGUERES, de Joan Brossa
Text published on the Espais Escrits mapaliterari.cat website. Catalan Literary Heritage Network.
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Carrer De Sant Pere 1, 17600 Figueras, Provincia de Gerona, España
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