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That is our target market, but adult groups looking to play with vintage and modern toys are welcome. We offer sophistcated toys and puzzles that challenge groups to think together. Or use one of our original 1964 Rock'em Sock'em Robot playfields to (and let's be direct here) let your people work out some frustrations by beating each other up....in a friendly way. We have games that develops patience. Whatever your goals are, we have a game for it. Or just let your people play and in between, rest with a coffee and listen to our audiophile stereo.
Yes. Our topics are adult oriented. Design, dangerous toys, racist toys, intellectural property theft, marketing, all centered around a vast collection of mechanical toys. There are no stuffed bears or porcelain dolls here. This is a museum of modern, mechanical toys beginning 1900 right up to today, with emphasis on the golden age of the big mechanical toys of the 1970s and 80s. Many display toys are reachable by hand. Children cannot resist grabbing at items and we can't blame them. Many of the dozens of toys we offer for play are too fragile for children to operate.
That was not the original plan. But only a spoken tour can begin to communicate a fraction of the wild and often hilarious stories behind all that is here from floor to ceiling. We tried using labels and voice boxes. It didn't work. Despite the small space, a visit here needs at least three hours if you're going to discover what's here and play to your heart's content. We can't do this for individual visitors. We tried for a while. It doesn't work.
Over hour of setup, up to four hours of hosting (we offer Nespresso, tea and cold drinks), then an hour or more to clean up. It's a lot of work. For now that's our limit. Perhaps we'll expand. You see, the museum is an absurdly filled residence. We must transform it from a residence to a museum for each tour.
Six is ideal, but we can do eight. It's a two level Amsterdam residence with most of the floor space taken up by exhibits. We've left ourselves enough room to live and it's....cozy. Amsterdam's most quirky, over-decorated apartment. We're pretty sure of that.