Welcome to The Toy Museum!

The idea behind our lovely museum café is to serve treats set beautifully alongside tea or coffee. We bake all our cakes and pastries by hand daily. Café Samovarbar is the go-to place for all tea lovers, and our hot chocolate is renowned. Espresso based drinks are crafted carefully. In the summertime we also have a selection of small producer ice cream. Café Samovarbar has a liquor license.

I take it upon myself to find products of outstanding quality and intrigue for the Museum shop. The products sold should also be ethically produced, and preferably made of authentic materials. We sell toys mostly to adult collectors, even though I always try and curate small and affordable objects, that is also easily portable.

“The collection’s first toys were bought in the late 1960’s by my mother, artist Piippa Tandefelt. At the time my mother was making ceramic art here in Suomenlinna. It was only natural she would find the materials and designs of porcelain dolls fascinating. My mother bought me the first porcelain dolls at the end of the 1960’s, when I was a small child. At the time my family lived in Suomenlinna” collector Petra Tandefelt says.

The identity of the Toy Museum is to be an old timey collection museum: here the visitor gets to admire the beautiful and extraordinary artefacts, wonder at the changing times and reflect on their grandparents’ lives. Our target group is nostalgics, hungry for the romance of bygone times, irrespective of age or gender.