The Museum of Toys and Automata (in Catalan Museu de Joguet machines i) is a toy vending machine & Museum in Verdú, Lleida, 100 km west of Barcelona. It creates a collection of more than a thousand objects in a building with unique architecture. It is one of the most important museums of its kind
The exhibition
The museum was opened in 2004. Most objects are part of the collection of Manel Mayoral created. It is in an old house at number 23 in the village square housed. It is distributed in three floors with an area of more than 2000 square meters. The collection is characterized by fair attractions, bicycles, table football, tin toys, cars formed with pedals, posters, scooters, games, Automata ...
The exhibition offers a fascinating journey through memories, illusions and experience of the collector. The memory is the subtle thread of this set of objects, but also of the museum.
The exhibition
The museum was opened in 2004. Most objects are part of the collection of Manel Mayoral created. It is in an old house at number 23 in the village square housed. It is distributed in three floors with an area of more than 2000 square meters. The collection is characterized by fair attractions, bicycles, table football, tin toys, cars formed with pedals, posters, scooters, games, Automata ...
The exhibition offers a fascinating journey through memories, illusions and experience of the collector. The memory is the subtle thread of this set of objects, but also of the museum.
The building
The building that houses the museum is located at number 23 of the Plaça Major by Verdú in the center of the city's social life, and it used to be a headquarters popularly known as "Cal Jan".
Cal Jan was in the 15th Century built than any other building in the same street, and even then an important house was Verdú. The falls from balconies on the first floor are an example of early architecture of the 17th Century. In fact, there is an inscription on the facade from the year 1695, the year the house will be rebuilt.
It was like a house in the middle of the 20th Century, used, and in 1999 it was decided to start its transformation into a museum.
In order to adapt the building to its new use, it has a complete rethinking of its distribution, as well as the addition of a neighboring site were. A ramp connects the four floors were built. The conversion was no architectural barriers, which resulted in an impressive construction done.
Related information: - Total area: 2.075 m2 - 1895 m2 Building area - were used: 1,000 tons of rock 224 tonnes of concrete 55 tons of iron 20 km 1.000 m electric cable wire wooden pipes 500 m2 400 m2 glass
The building that houses the museum is located at number 23 of the Plaça Major by Verdú in the center of the city's social life, and it used to be a headquarters popularly known as "Cal Jan".
Cal Jan was in the 15th Century built than any other building in the same street, and even then an important house was Verdú. The falls from balconies on the first floor are an example of early architecture of the 17th Century. In fact, there is an inscription on the facade from the year 1695, the year the house will be rebuilt.
It was like a house in the middle of the 20th Century, used, and in 1999 it was decided to start its transformation into a museum.
In order to adapt the building to its new use, it has a complete rethinking of its distribution, as well as the addition of a neighboring site were. A ramp connects the four floors were built. The conversion was no architectural barriers, which resulted in an impressive construction done.
Related information: - Total area: 2.075 m2 - 1895 m2 Building area - were used: 1,000 tons of rock 224 tonnes of concrete 55 tons of iron 20 km 1.000 m electric cable wire wooden pipes 500 m2 400 m2 glass
Information
From its opening, the Museum of temporary exhibitions has performed at the same time, from the museum, they offer the rental of twenty temporary exhibitions, for any type of cultural institutions and centers of leisure.
Guided visits are organized by the Museum and Verdú has educational workshops for groups, he rents his equipment to carry out photographic reports and viewing of television. She also has a shop of toys and products of the area.
From its opening, the museum is a social, cultural and tourist phenomenon in Catalonia and in the route of the Cistercians, for the large number of visitors that it receives each year and for the transcendence of the measures.
From its opening, the Museum of temporary exhibitions has performed at the same time, from the museum, they offer the rental of twenty temporary exhibitions, for any type of cultural institutions and centers of leisure.
Guided visits are organized by the Museum and Verdú has educational workshops for groups, he rents his equipment to carry out photographic reports and viewing of television. She also has a shop of toys and products of the area.
From its opening, the museum is a social, cultural and tourist phenomenon in Catalonia and in the route of the Cistercians, for the large number of visitors that it receives each year and for the transcendence of the measures.
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