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[embebe]

I'm the travel editor for Grandparents.com and we're doing a story on miniature displays that grandparents can visit with their grandchildren. We've found lots of museums with dolls and dollhouses, but not so many sites that boys might enjoy. Can you recommend any impressive toy soldier collections or displays that are open to the public in the United States? URLs would be useful.

Thanks for your help.

marcy@grandparents.com

 

[theBaron]

I'm the travel editor for Grandparents.com and we're doing a story on miniature displays that grandparents can visit with their grandchildren. We've found lots of museums with dolls and dollhouses, but not so many sites that boys might enjoy. Can you recommend any impressive toy soldier collections or displays that are open to the public in the United States? URLs would be useful.

Thanks for your help.

marcy@grandparents.com

I'll let the forum members speak for themselves about their own collections and whether they're open to the public, but here is a vendor/collector who has established his own museum in the Poconos: Jim Hillestad of The Toy Soldier, website www.the-toy-soldier.com. Jim has a wonderful collection of displays, in a second house on his property, built just to hold his collection. He holds open houses before the toy soldier shows held here in the Mid-Atlantic states. You can contact him about availability to the general public, it may be limited, but available by arrangement.

Prost!
Brad

 

[theBaron]

Also, here is the site of a display in Victoria, BC, if I am not mistaken, that one of the forum members showed us last week:

http://www.miniatureworld.com/

This is a series of displays, from various time periods, and it is open to the public, if I am not mistaken.

Prost!
Brad

 

[Louis Badolato]

My K&C Museum is available for public viewing on a by apointment basis. I second the Baron's suggestion concerning Jim Hillestad's Toy Soldier Museum. My display is 90% King & Country products, and a few pieces of military memorabelia covering 800 square feet in 3 rooms. Jim's is a full two story house with just about every manufacturer covered, as well as literally hundreds of pieces of Military Memorabelia, and British Royal Family artifacts, including the sword Prince Charles wore at his wedding to Lady Diana.

 

[debrito]

Very interesting Louis, thanks for sharing your collection with us, the public.

Rod.