PLAYMOBIL®: 40 years of stories

Fanny & Olivier private collection 

For 40 years, PLAYMOBIL has fed the imagination of children in the entire world. To celebrate this anniversary, the Toy Museum hosted an exhibition dedicated to the little German figurines. 

Thanks to the help of Fanny and Olivier, passionate collectors, 2500 directed characters traced the brand evolution and illustrated the diversity of its worlds. The exhibition invited you to travel in ancient Egypt, the Roman Empire, the Middles Ages or the Wild West. The animal worlds took you on a circus track, to the zoo or in the savannah. The city as well as the countryside evoked a daily support for the productive imagination of children.

With the kind authorization of PLAYMOBIL® France. This exhibition is not sponsored or organized by PLAYMOBIL®.

© Playmobil – Toy Museum – photos D. LACROIX 2014

Around the exhibition: 

• For the family

Dedications from Richard Unglik, on 12 and 13 April 2014 (2pm – 6:30pm)

Photographer and filmmaker, passionate about epic art, Richard Unglik revisits history by staging the famous figurines. He has published 4 books for young people with CASTERMAN.

Visit to discover the exhibition (for all, children from 6 years old), on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11am during summer holidays.

30 minutes to discover, accompanied by a museum guide, 40 years of PLAYMOBIL stories.

• For children

Workshop “animated PLAYMOBIL®” (8-14 years old), during school holidays (duration 2h)

Creation of an animation movie, using the stop motion technique.

Watch an example of a movie ICI

Workshop “Forward the stories” (4-7 years old), during school holidays (duration 1h30)

We create stories and we play!

PLAYMOBIL short movie contest: 2 minutes maximum to convince, that’s what proposed the Toy Museum short movie contest. Nominë and Nicéphore BRENOT, 11 and 9 years old won the 1^st prize.

• An exhibition, a debate: Conference-debate around the “passion of the collection”, 7 March 2015, for all.

At the shop: Exhibition-sale of the artist David DELASSALE.

David DELASSALE revisits traditional engraving, experimenting with surprising formats. Playful vision, desire to play, he reproduces the PLAYMOBIL universe in his own way.