TOY MUSEUMS

1 THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF TOYS AND MINIATURES

KANSAS CITY, USA

ith a vast collection in excess of 86,000 objects, The National Museum Of Toys And Miniatures in Kansas City, Missouri, boasts the world’s largest collection of fine-scale miniatures as well as one of the largest collections of historic toys in the United States. That’s quite an expansion based on where the museum started back in 1982. Originally the Miniature Museum on the Kansas City University campus was made up of the combined collections of its two founders, Mary Harris Francis and Barbara Hall Marshall. Over the next 30 years it grew from