Okay, so today I went with a number of co-workers to the Mint Toy Museum over by Raffles Hotel (the home of the Singapore Sling) in Singapore.It's a very cool place. I have a number of friends who would be in heaven there (Zane & Dave Cobb to mention two).
The museum has some great, some wierd, some creepy and some down right racist toys from the past 80 years or so.
The place is divided into 5 floors:
Ground floor: cafe, shop & ticket sales
2nd floor: Collectables (Beatles, Monkees, Matchbox)
3rd floor: Childhood Favorites (Disney, Warner Bros., Etc)
4th floor: Superheroes & Characters
5th floor: Outer Space
We started at the top floor and worked our way down.
The place is pretty small. It's maybe 20 feet wide by 60 feet deep, so, each floor is really just a stairwell, a sort of hallway with shelves along one side, and then it opens up a bit to another type of display area.
It wasn't until we were down on the 3rd floor that I realized what the architects had done (see the video below):
Overall, the Mint Toy Museum was very interesting. I think that what was most notable was the repetition of toys within the variety displayed there. I know that sounds odd, but the best example is the tin toys. There must have been a thousand tin toys on one level, maybe several hundred per case, and within that case of several hundred there were, say, 15 or 20 tin elephants that were all from different countries, with different paint jobs, yet all from the same mold and having the exact same form. really, really interesting stuff.
I'll put together a Picassa album of this little adventure:
http://picasaweb.google.com/KevinCardani/MintToyMuseumSingapore#
Enjoy.
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