Mint Museum of Toys is located at 26 Seah Street, in the Arts & Heritage district of Singapore. The museum is a purpose-built museum showing a private collection of vintage toys. It was officially opened in 2007.
The museum is a five storey building, the first floor is a restaurant, visitors can take an elevator to the 5th floor first, then walk downstairs.
MINT is an acronym for ‘Moment of Imagination and Nostalgia with Toys’, this museum can give you memories of childhood to some extent, hence its name.
To protect the precious collections, the lighting of the museum is dimmed, it is difficult for you to take photos.
The museum collection includes more than 50,000 toys and childhood memorabilia from the mid-19th century to mid-20th Century.
Exhibits on display include Disneyana toys, Astro Boy, Batman, Popeye the Sailor dating from the turn of the 20th Century, as well as Chinese comics and comic covers dating from 1920s, and The Adventures of Tintin collectables, some of the exhibits are priceless.
All the toys displayed in the museum are the lifetime collection of Singaporean, Chang Yang Fa (Chinese: 張延發).
