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Doll & Toy Museum
D-91541 Rothenburg ob der Tauber Opening Hours A 15th century house, displaying the toys of our ancestors, bids you a visit. Come and fall under the speit of the marvelous world "en miniature". More than 800 dolls, produced by French and German specialists of the past 200 years. Doll houses, doll chambers, doll kitchens, and doll shops, furnished with all of the precious things that a complete doll household required. Doll theaters, trains, tin toys, carriages, farms, schools, carousels, wooden toys carved by hand, as well as thousands of charming accessories of a child's world of the distant past. A stroll through the museum, however, offers the visitor tar more than a mere nostalgic trip through the past. The exhibit evokes various aspects of cultural and social history, because the doll world is a microcosm of our world, and is thus an exceptionally rich source of information about the customs of our ancestors. |
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