A Birthday Outing

Yesterday I took the day off to begin my birthday celebrating early! (Birthday is Monday) :) As part of my celebaration I have been wanting to visit a local place for a very long time. This place is located on the UMKC University campus in the Tureman Mansion. You asked "what is this place?" WELL, I'll tell you. As the sign above says: Toy and Miniature Museum. The museum was founded by Mary Harris Francis and Barbara Marshall when their own collections got too large they began work on opening a toy museum. They began operating out of the Tureman Mansion in 1982 and have expanded twice to it's current size of 33,000 square feet.

The museum has two floors of

toys and miniatures from all

areas of the toy world to a

variety of countries.

Doll houses-many that are

decorated in various periods.

One house is 9 feet tall! There

are churches, trains, cars,

dolls, bears, clowns, games,

and a marble collection.

The miniatures are sooooooo

detailed that it was unbelievable!

The "temporary" exhibit for the

last year was "50 years of Barbie."

Being a girl who played with Barbie,

I had to see this exhibit. It truely was

fun going through and remembering

all the fun times my friends and I had

getting together to play "Barbies."

They had the older ones, the career

ones, the Malibu ones and some that

I hadn't heard of. There was one

whole display with the theme dolls

and the holiday dolls. There were

houses, cars, and the airplane.

I picked up this cute little

container in the gift shop.

If you are ever in the Kansas

City are and want something

to do go to the Toy and Miniature

Museum--but go when you have

a lot of time, we were there for 3

hours. Here is their website.

http://www.toyandminiaturemuseum.org/

~Keep on Dreaming~