MINT Museum of Toys

We love this mint museum! Our kids are 6 and 4, and we had a great time here. There were small toys available for the kids to play as well. Would highly recommend for families! Ms Hanni is our guide at the entrance who was very helpful and friendly.

The staff at the front Miss Ani was super helpful! She guided us on how to purchase the tickets and how to navigate once inside. Loved her personality and her patience to help us through. Love the entire experience! A MUST visit! If you are lucky, you will be greeted by Miss Ani!

This is the first time I saw so many toys in my life. Although there’s a little problem with the entrance, Mrs Hanni helped me with her patience to enter. Overall, it’s a good place to visit.

It was a fascinating walk through the history of toys I never knew the Singaporean owner was such a passionate collector from a tender age of 7 and still collecting over 70 years! Highly recommend a visit or more!

All very nice! Compact toy museum in the CBD. They screen cartoons during the visit. There is written content everywhere and augmented reality QR on every floor. I'll be back 😉

Nice museum for one time visit, good collection. But because of the ticket price (30 sgd online and 35 on site) we were alone, exhibition looks unpopular.

Fun little museum, exhibition more for the adults rather than the kids. Staff extremely friendly!

Did not quite work for me. Perhaps the international flavour was too strong to evoke nostalgia for someone with a poor neighborhood past. Nevertheless, it was good exposure for the kids. The place is quite small despite the big entrance fees.

The place was great. Brings back some memories of toys i use to have or seen. Pretty straight forward you buy the tickets online with a time you are going. The person scans the Qr code and your're done. They have stairs or use the elevator and I saw a bar all the way upstairs I didn't really check out the bar. The person let us buy the tickets right there and let us in. We didn't have to really wait.

-Worst museum ever to be honest with you. -First of all the ticket is so expensive 21.40 SGD. -The place very small not worth the price of the ticket. -When I was there there is one story was closed under maintenance, so I ask them for discount since one story is closed they say we can't. -The air conditioning was not working the place was very hot -it was empty I knew why there were no people -No one to guide you explain for you as other museum doing. -All in all the museum was not worth it very old ugly toys.

Honestly, I was most amazed by how many toys could be packed in just one very narrow building with only 4 levels of exhibits. I was finally here for my first visit with a couple of Japanese friends. I was quite upset by the kind of service at the counter when they first received us. More than anything, they were just very money driven, just wanted us to show the money and purchase the admission ticket asap when we were still looking around at the toys at the mint shop. After we purchased the tickets, the brochure was just shoved over to us hastily by the person serving at the counter. No thanks to her, we began on bad note. Overall, there were really a lot of exhibits from all over the world. It is where you observe how culture is embedded within the toys and how times have changed. Each theme was explained in English, Japanese and Chinese. So it was pretty easy for locals and tourists alike to learn about the history of the toys! Yes, you do feel a sense of nostalgia and connected back with your childhood days... but to me it was a very static experience as no interaction could be made; it was just you watching the exhibits thinking to yourself how times have changed. With the nature of exhibitions being changed over time, having interactive ones or at least putting up some video display would have made it more interesting and make it worth each and every cent of the $15 admission charge.

I haven't visited MINT Museum of Toys proper but I was there recently for a friend's birthday party. She rented the whole place, excluding the roof top bar for her 21st birthday party. I felt that it was a pretty cool place for a party, albeit being a tad bit too dark for nice pictures. We could roam freely and look through the exhibits of vintage toys during her party and it was pretty interesting looking at how the toys changed as society evolved and modernized itself. Some of the toys were a little creepy, especially as we were there at night and the exhibition rooms were quite dimly lit (and also, because I'm generally an easily frightened person). We explored the rooftop bar as well and it was really pretty. Decked out in road and street signs, it was a pretty cool rooftop bar with clear views of the city skyline. However, on checking with the bartender, we found out that the minimum age for getting a drink was 23 and 25 for females and males respectively. That was quite a spoiler as we were all below that age limit.

As I was wandering around the back streets behind Raffles I came across this place and I must admit that it really caught my interest. Okay, I'm not really a collector of toys but I was interested in seeing what they had on display - and the short answer is heaps. The museum itself is not that large - it occupies four levels and each of the levels are pretty small, however the number of toys that they have managed to squeeze into this place is amazing. It is one of those places that is certainly going to reawaken that child sleeping inside of you. Each of the levels has different themes, with the science-fiction one at the top. There is also a display of lunch boxes, and it seemed as if whoever owns this place had a different lunchbox for every day of the year. The toys are range from the 50s up to the late 80s, and there almost every major production of the time is covered. Oh, and there was huge number of smurfs. Definitely something to check out.

A visit to this musuem is a chance for you to reconnect with your childhood. Toys are also a chance to learn about history. There are tin robots from my grandparents and parents' generations, Beatles' memorabilia, collections of teddy bears and Disney characters along with expensive collectable figurines that cost more than a thousand bucks. Flash photography isn't allowed here, because it makes the colour of the toys fade faster. Being here kinda made me wanna be a child again.

I only paid this museum a visit because it was part of a Viator Unlimited Singapore Pass I had, so I can only confirm that it's definitely worth a free visit. The museum itself is easy to miss; it's the top 4 floors of what appeared to be an unrelated restaurant. You have to walk all the way through the restaurant to find someone at a desk to help you. You'll get a small brochure and be told to work your way down from the top of the museum. My friend and I had the place completely to ourselves, which felt a bit eerie. The place is home to tons of rare and antique toys from around the world, but there isn't a whole lot of information to help you out or make the display more interesting. Unless you're looking for a specific toy or feeling very nostalgic, the museum, while very interesting, only takes about half an hour to go through. Probably not worth it for a full-price ticket, so look for a discount - there are plenty on the website and through various travel packages.

The museum has an excellent collection of toys with special focus on science fiction and the American space program of the 1960s. Big concern how about toys depicting black people in a highly racist and derogatory fashion. I spoke to those that run the museum and was assured at the owner was sympathetic. Not really good enough for me. They need to put up a sign that this was a tragic and horrible chapter in history and to warn children especially that these toys were not funny and are dangerous. The more people agree with this and let the museum staff know, the better!