Toy Museum Salzburg
Former citizens' hospital carved into a cliff, its medieval wards now filled with wooden toys and paper theatres.
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This guide to the Toy Museum in Salzburg begins in Vienna with a little girl, Gabriele Folk, born in 1902, and the unusual way she liked to arrange her toys. It follows her marriage to Hugo Folk, a collector of paper theatres, and the years of searching for a buyer in Vienna and Nuremberg, and brings in the Salzburg museum director who took up their cause. Best heard in the arcaded courtyard of the old Bürgerspital.
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