Museo El Juguetero

Museo El Juguetero showcases over 25,000 antique toys from 1898 to 1995, highlighting Uruguayan and international pieces.

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Museo El Juguetero in Montevideo holds over 25,000 toys spanning 1898 to 1995, and its distinguishing feature is the Uruguayan material — a small country's domestic toy industry is not documented anywhere else, and the museum records manufacturers, brands and products that have otherwise vanished.

Around that sit international toys across the century: tin and clockwork, dolls, model vehicles, board games, and the plastic era.

Toy collections work through recognition, and the pleasure here is generational — Uruguayan visitors identify objects from their own childhoods, and the museum documents changing ideas about play, gender and childhood along the way.

It is a private collection assembled over decades rather than a state institution.

Bookable options are entry tickets. Current availability is shown below.