Sergiev Posad is famous for its toy fishing all over the world. Not surprisingly, it was here in 1931 moved to the Museum of Toys, which began its existence in Moscow. In 1910, Bartram Nikolai became interested in collecting. The original collection of various toys housed in his home. But the collection grew, and in 1918, the artist decides to open a museum. He chooses the house number 8 on Smolensky Boulevard, and in 1921 one-story house with an attic meets the first visitor. However, the size of the collection is growing rapidly. Again we have to search the room. Already in 1925, the museum opens on Kropotkin Street. It has provided toys for five halls that are superior to the former area of ​​the room is more than two times.

Museum of successfully developing. Participates in exhibitions in Moscow, plays host to puppet theaters of the capital. The museum organizes art courses toys, where each year are taught about 300 craftsmen fishing. Home Kropotkin Street becomes perhaps the most popular destination among tourists after the Tretyakov Gallery. After the death of the founder and curator of the museum in 1931. The exhibits are moved to Zagorsk (formerly Sergiev Posad). From 1980 to the present day museum "lives" in the picturesque location of Sergiev Posad. The old two-storey mansion of red brick stands on the hill near the scraper cellarer pond.

Here, modern dolls coexist with ancient wood, works of Russian artists - foreign. In total more than one hundred thousand exhibits. You'll see a miniature doll furniture and dishes - exact copies of real objects interior. Also on display in the museum of toys children's portraits of artists XVII-XXI centuries.

One of the most interesting exhibits are the toys of children of the last Russian tsar: models of cars, ships, locomotives and other equipment for the Tsarevich Alexei, dolls from Germany and France, with rooms and furniture for the daughters of Nicholas II. Here is a French chest of royal games: bingo, checkers, badminton, ping-pong, rope. There is a collection of sovereign and Russian craftsmen. For example, the layout of the Rostov Kremlin, which are opened and the gates of the window, followed by a delicate watercolors made up a copy of these frescoes of the XIII century.

Hundred matryoshka occupies a special place in the exposition. It - one of the first ancient Russian dolls - a symbol of the city. Dolls and their neighbor Filimonov and Dymkovo ladies, Bogorodsk Russian peasants work, and most importantly, the townsmen masters up, probably most of the museum. Wooden toys from the village of Bogorodskoye are of interest in that, firstly, they are executed in the technique of so-called centrifugal thread (no prefabricated sketches and sketches), and secondly, so simply constructed moving parts. Frozen figure suddenly comes to life.

Those who spent his childhood in the Soviet era, certainly stop at the window with toys that time. This is the first Soviet tractor, and the figures of the Red Army. Many are made from waste material, which reflects the difficult period in the life of our country. But at all times the toy was in the role of educator. That is why, despite the difficulties in the economy of the 30s of the twentieth century, in Zagorsk open All-Union Scientific Experimental Institute of toys and industrial technical toys. From 1980, the museum came to Misha, who was born here in Sergiev Posad.