Mint Museum of Toys

The MINT Museum of Toys is a purpose-built toy museum at 26 Seah Street in the Arts and Heritage district of Singapore, officially opened on 5 March 2007 and claimed as the world's first purpose-built toy museum. MINT stands for 'Moment of Imagination and Nostalgia with Toys'; the museum holds over 50,000 vintage toys from more than 54 countries, ranging in date from the 1840s to the 1980s, plus vintage enamel signs, decorative tins and Beatles memorabilia. Its windowless building by architect Soo K. Chan features a signature wavelike facade of 26 glass panes and won the Chicago Athenaeum's International Architecture Award in 2007.