Saint Petersburg Toy Museum

Saint Petersburg Toy Museum (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́ргский музе́й игру́шки) is a non-state cultural establishment.

The Saint-Petersburg Toy Museum was established as an artistic museum with the main task of collecting, storing, exposing and studying toys not only as a unique item of material culture, but also as a unique art form, that includes ancient national traditions and the most recent artistic tendencies.

The toy as an art form, existing as both a functional play-thing and an aesthetic object, inspired the collection.

Having united artists, art critics and pedagogues around it, the Saint-Petersburg Museum takes part in working out interesting exhibition programs and artistic festivals, orientated on a broad age diapason of participators and visitors.

The Museum is not aimed purely at children, and works with other institutions to teach educational programmes.

Folk toy in the St. Petersburg Toy Museum ( Russia )
The guide and children in the St. Petersburg Toy Museum ( Russia )
Whistles-Toy in the St. Petersburg Toy Museum ( Russia )
Children in the St. Petersburg Toy Museum (Russia)
The exhibits in the St. Petersburg Toy Museum ( Russia )