The big train
A miniature rail world of Alsatian mountains and villages โ the children's magnet.
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The sweet spot is four to ten, and the train enchants all. Teenagers find the robot and vintage video game corners funnier than expected. Under three, the train alone will do.
Use it as the bargaining chip: grown-up lanes in the morning against the toy hour after lunch โ its spot at the end of Rue Vauban serves exactly that. Or hold it for rain.
Toy history mirrors industrial and taste history โ French porcelain dolls to the Japanese plastic invasion โ and the labels catch it lightly. You will leave having read more than you expected.
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The toy museum is Colmar's winning card with children: three floors of an old cinema filled with a century and a half of toys โ dolls and their houses, tin robots, carousels, Lego sets, characters the young recognise and others the grandparents remember, so the generations meet at the cases. Its star is a huge electric train circuit running through miniature Alsatian mountains, tunnels and villages โ children stand nailed before it โ and real play corners between floors let them finally touch after so much forbidden glass. An easy hour, and its position at the old town's edge makes it the walk's end reward โ or Colmar's best rain shelter.
A miniature rail world of Alsatian mountains and villages โ the children's magnet.
Toys from 1850 to now โ everyone finds their childhood in some case.
Real play corners between floors โ relief for small hands.
40 Rue Vauban, 68000 Colmar