Dolls and small cars...

Childhood regained

Josef Schovanec said: "I tell myself that there is nothing wrong with remaining a child. When you see what adults do...", and from a slightly different point of view, but from a master in the field, Walt Disney: "Adults are only children who have grown up"!

One can have in mind these deep thoughts while visiting the "Little Museum of Old Time Toys", but one can also think of nothing, and, slowly, let oneself slip into one's rediscovered childhood...

 

100 years of toys

Michel Blanchet has made toys, and it is in his old workshop that he has now gathered a thousand of them, covering 100 years of childhood!
This is the perfect place to rediscover with nostalgia the toys you spent hours with, and with emotion, those of your grandparents!
Find the wooden toys, the dolls, the stoves with all their details, the trains, of course, the puppets, the strollers, the small cars...
And no game of massacre on screen!

And, since you are now in this pretty village, don't forget, still with your child's weapon, to discover the covered wooden bridge, to be amazed, the castle... more castle than nature, to dream, and the "Rhinolophes' abyss", to be scared!

 

The small museum Toys of yesteryear
1, rue Principale
36800 Le Pont-Chrétien-Chabenet
Tel : 06 81 27 63 29
michel.blanchet02@orange.fr

 

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To go further....

Les Jouets anciens

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La Folie des trains électriques

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Locomotives Pacific 231 de la compagnie PLM, Atlantic du Nord BB de la SNCF, wagons à ranchers ou voitures de voyageurs chics de la Compagnie des wagons-lits, ce livre vous entraîne dans l'univers fascinant des trains miniatures à travers les productions des plus grandes fabriques de jouets que furent aux alentours de 1900 Märklin, Bing, JEP, Paya, CR et les autres.
Vilac: 100 ans de jouets en bois

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Créée en 1911 par Narcisse Villet au cœur du Jura français, à Moirans-en-Montagne, la société Vilac perpétue une longue tradition régionale, celle du jouet en bois tourné et laqué.
Ce livre présente plus de trois cents jouets des années 1910 à aujourd'hui.

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