Museum of Toys and Automata Museum

Address: Plaça de l’Església area / Ferreries (Tortosa region-exact street varies) or in Catalonia venues; confirm local site

Hours: Tue-Sun 10:00am-6:00pm, closed Mondays (confirm locally)

Admission: €4-€6 adults (approx.), children reduced rates

The Museum of Toys and Automata is a museum in Catalonia, Spain, devoted to historical toys and mechanical automata. It presents objects illustrating the history of play and mechanical toy design.

Displays include dolls, miniature models, tin toys and working automata that show mechanical movements. Exhibitions often demonstrate the mechanisms of automata and trace changes in toy production and design.

The museum was established to collect, conserve and interpret historic toys and automata for study and public display. It has developed hands-on and demonstration programs to show how automata operate.

Situated in Catalonia, the museum is in the Girona province area and accessible from nearby towns and transport links within the region.

• Collection highlights: Collections combine historical toys, dolls and mechanical automata that demonstrate developments in toy-making and mechanical engineering.

Nearest larger towns in Catalonia depend on the museum’s exact location-check local tourism websites for bus or train connections. Most small Catalan museums are reachable by regional bus from Girona or Barcelona with onward local buses.

• Bring a small change purse-there are mechanical toys on display that reward closer inspection.
• Ask for demonstrations of automata when staff are available; seeing gears move is worth the visit.
• Arrive mid‑week to avoid family groups on weekends.