Museum
Teddy Bear Museum
Teddy-bear collection tracing the toy's origin, with themed galleries, a bronze sculpture garden, and a snack cafe.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Teddy Bear Museum in Jeju traces how the toy came to exist: a 1902 bear hunt in Mississippi where President Theodore Roosevelt's guide, Holt Collier, cornered an exhausted bear, and the cartoon of what Roosevelt did next that reached a Brooklyn candy-shop owner named Morris Michtom. It follows how that refusal became a toy company, and eventually the collection filling the halls around you. Listen for the full story before you reach the gift shop and cafe.
This audio guide was created using AI.