Soltau Toy Museum

The museum is located in a listed building which consists of a shop and house in the centre of Soltau.

In addition to dolls made of the widest variety of materials there are doll's houses, rooms, kitchens and shops as well as model railways, and lead and wooden toys, Laterna Magica devices and a host of teddy bears and stuffed toys.

The museum has a total area of 600 square metres and receives 40,000 visitors a year.

The pièce de resistance of the exhibition is Dingley Hall, a three-metre-wide (9.8-foot) and two-metre-high (6.6-foot) doll's house that was bought in 2003 for €190,000 at Christie's in London.

In order to ensure the continued existence of this important collection, a charitable foundation, the "Stiftung Spiel: Historisches Spielzeug - innovative Spielräume" was formed and has run the museum since 1 August 2005.