Toy Museum Salzburg

This guide to the Toy Museum in Salzburg starts with an accounting oddity: Archbishop Friedrich the Third paid to carve this hospital into the Mönchsberg cliff in 1327, then never paid for it again. You'll hear how ordinary citizens kept it running for over five hundred years by dropping coins into a collection box, why it's still called the Bürgerspital rather than the archbishop's hospital, and how its four wings and stone arcades let the sick and elderly move between rooms without stepping into weather. The wards closed in 1896 when the city built something newer elsewhere, and stood empty for decades after.