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Seek your inner child at Salzburg’s Toy Museum

Pablo Picasso famously said that we are all born artists, the only trick is remaining an artist as we grow up. Somewhat along the same lines are those self-helpers who say that we are all born children, the trick is learning to stay in touch with that child as we grow up. Actually, it’s pretty much the same thing, isn’t it?

The centre of either ideal is finding a way to retain the innocence and playfulness that we enter the world with, even as we grow through it. It’s no small task. Sometimes we need help to re-find it, and at moments like these, we can be thankful for oases like Salzburg’s Spielzeugmuseum, or Toy Museum - a monument to those wondrous little objects that once helped us discover ourselves and the world around us: TOYS.

Whether you are there escorted by a little artist or by your own inner child, The Toy Museum has plenty to offer in terms of culture, historical toys and finding the inner you. Even with all these historical bits and bobs, the museum is anything but stuffy, and is fully dedicated to one thing and one thing only, and it’s not toys. Well, not in the strictest sense. It is rather the act of playing, and that’s something we all need to be reminded to do more of.

After 3 full floors dedicated, respectively, to “Play”, “Experience”, and “Astonishment”, no matter your age you’ll either be all tuckered out or on an over-stimulated, hyperactive high.

Salzburg Toy Museum | The Aficionados

In either case, it’s good to know that Arthotel Blaue Gans is literally across the street. Check out their amazing art collection with new eyes… or just hit your room for nap time at this designer hotel of creative cool - a grown up child's play den.

For more cultural wonderments have a peek in our travel journal at artist Joan Miró's Mallorcan workshop, Salkammergut's bold Austrian nature and neighbouring Vienna's style guide to design. A cultural menagerie if ever there was one.

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