Seek your inner child at Salzburg’s Toy Museum

The centre of either ideal is finding a way to retain the innocence and playfulness that we enter the world with, even as we grow through it. It’s no small task. Sometimes we need help to re-find it, and at moments like these, we can be thankful for oases like Salzburg’s Spielzeugmuseum, or Toy Museum - a monument to those wondrous little objects that once helped us discover ourselves and the world around us: TOYS.

Whether you are there escorted by a little artist or by your own inner child, The Toy Museum has plenty to offer in terms of culture, historical toys and finding the inner you. Even with all these historical bits and bobs, the museum is anything but stuffy, and is fully dedicated to one thing and one thing only, and it’s not toys. Well, not in the strictest sense. It is rather the act of playing, and that’s something we all need to be reminded to do more of.

After 3 full floors dedicated, respectively, to “Play”, “Experience”, and “Astonishment”, no matter your age you’ll either be all tuckered out or on an over-stimulated, hyperactive high.