Bergrummet museum
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The exhibition
Unique toy collection for the whole family
The unique toy collection, displayed here in the Stockholm Toy Museum, Bergrummet, consists of almost 40, items, making it the largest privately owned toy collection in Northern Europe.
The exhibition is suitable for the whole family, young and old. The collection consists of toys from several generations and people of all ages enjoy visiting us.
Child-friendly museum with play areas
There are several areas around the museum where our youngest visitors can play. For example, you can fry pancakes and meatballs in Teddys grandmothers kitchen, jump on a hobby horse, play pinball or borrow books and games in the café.
The underground tunnels of Skeppsholmen, once used by the Swedish military, are now home to this incredible collection. We have retained the raw rock walls, which provide a stark contrast to the imaginative play that surrounds our collection. Here, untouched collectors items mix with broken favorite things in a magical environment!
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Bergrummet
Bergrummet - Tidö Collection of Toys & Comics, as the museum is called by its full name, used to be called Tidö leksaks- och seriemuseum an was located at Tidö castle near Västerås. In , David von Schinkel, owner of the collection and lord of the castle on Tidö, moved his museum to the unusual surroundings of the empty cavern (Swedish: Bergrummet) on Skeppsholmen.
Toys from the 17th century
No matter whether dolls and dollhouses, steam engines, tin toys, shops, play kitchens, model cars, soft toys, model trains, action figures or comic books – the list could be continued almost endlessly – the exhibition contains just about every toy that made generations of children's hearts beat faster.
The toys on display not only date from the last decades, but also show the development of toys from the 17th century to the present. The museum's huge collection consists of over 40, different toys, making it the largest toy collection in Scandinavia.
The exhibition is sorted according to themes and the information on the individual exhibits is transported via a total of 60 screens spread across the 2, square metre exhibition area. In addition to Swedish, the explanations are
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Stockholm Toy Museum: Famous toy collection at Bergrummet
Scandinavia’s largest toy collection was previously kept at the prestigious Tidö Castle in huvud Sweden. In September , Tidö Collection of Toys & Comics was opened as a new museum on the island of Skeppsholmen in Stockholm. As such, the collection fryst vatten accessible to significantly more visitors not least design tourists on their way to national cultural museums like the architecture and design centre ArkDes, the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities and the Moderna Museet on the same island.
Tidö Collection of Toys & Comics was started bygd the nobleman Carl-David von Schinkel. It was opened by the Swedish king in , and includes 40, toys and comics from the 17th century until today. The pieces are not only a time document with a unique design history, but also a testimony of the child’s world through the ages.
The new museum in huvudstaden is located in a subterranean rock shelter on Skeppsholmen called Bergrummet. It is now named Stockholm Toy Museum.
The exhibition ingångsrum was designed by craftsmen from a number of Swedish institutions, from the Royal Dramatic Theatre to the musikdrama, SVT, Kulturhuset and th