Museo Leikki toy museum in Espoo, Finland, has just opened a new special exhibition Time Travel Odyssey 1950 – Childhood and youth of the past, present and future
Displayed in one of the cabinets are some of my space toys which were either manufactured or sold in Finland in the Fifties.
Many of them are copies of British toys of the era.
How many can you spot? The exhibition will run until March, 2028.
Arto
Helsinki Base
A lovely display. Well done.
ReplyDeleteYes, how cool! Great stuff Arto! It must be great to display in a Museum!
ReplyDeleteNice collection there Arto.
ReplyDeleteReally evocative of the era.
Congratulations, how wonderful to have a collection worthy of museum display! SFZ
ReplyDeleteVery cool Arto! That is a terrific display! It won't be long before I'll be displayed in a museum with a card that reads "Antique Humanoid" LOL
ReplyDeleteThanks! This is the third time I have loaned items to the museum.
ReplyDeleteSome items like the tinplates are from the museum's own collection and the space plastics from mine. Some additional items too like the very HTF The Phantom board game which I had as a child and then spent 15 years to find again!
15 years! What a fantastic quest Arto! So glad you were reunited with the Phantom!
DeleteThere was a fantastic museum in Turku Castle, I remember a selection of tin toys, along with China and Glassware, German lava pottery, it was back in the 90's, during a tour of Scandinavia, my recollection is a little hazy😬
ReplyDeleteSounds like a superb tour MJ. Was that with the band?
DeleteOh yes!! Easter 1996, Norway, Sweden and Finland, we ate and drank like kings!!! We also played some music....
DeleteWe had a free truckers breakfast on the ferry from Stockholm to Turku, we made the most of it!! Then waddled around Turku Castle!!