Perfect... Imperfection...Seeking A Balance...: Penang Toy Museum 2 May 2015

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

Penang Toy Museum 2 May 2015

After our almost the entire ride driving from the Queensbay Mall towards the Penang Butterfly Farm, and the Waze directed us through the Teluk Bahang road, which made us driving using the hilly road and we passed by a lot of orchards.

During this time is the our King of fruits – Durian season. The road is just like the Genting Highlands road, one side is the hill and the other side is the slope of the forests or orchards.

This made us so thrilled, as Daddy and I weren’t expect Penang Island still have the road like this. Both Annabelle and Issac were so tired after our morning Street Arts Hunting and Fort Cornwallis trip, both were fall asleep in the car.

The weather is still hot but during at the hilly road, we can feel the cold breeze. There were cars parking aside and most of the people were feasting on the Durian feast.

Daddy said, it is the Durian season just started. At the end of the hilly road, we came to a wide view of the big Teluk Bahang Dam, it is not open to the public, we just can view from far.

To our surprise, the Penang Butterfly Farm which we intended to go, has close down for renovation. It made us really disappointed as we drove all the way from Queensbay Mall and only to find out it is closed.

On our way towards the Batu Ferringhi, we discovered there is a signage “Toy Museum Heritage Garden”.

We decided to go and have a check on it, as we received the leaflet the day before when we were at the Penang Hill, better than nothing and going back to our hotel at the Jalan Burma area.

Penang Toy Museum previously was located at Tanjung Bungah. Currently has moved to Teluk Bahang. After we bought the tickets, we went in.

Really a lot of people there too, holiday weekend always crowded. There are a lot of display showcases which are made in iron angle rack with four sided covered with Perspex. Inside displayed the toys or miniatures.

The founder of the museum is Mr. Loh Lean Cheng. He is and engineer and he came up with this idea with the inspiration from his visit to the London Toy and Model Museum. The museum possesses as much as 110,000 toys and any related collectibles.

The museum itself can be divided into a few sections namely the Chamber of Horror, Chamber of Monsters, Chamber of Fantasy, Chamber of Comic Book Heroes, Hall of Celebrities, Hall of Cartoons and many more.

Almost every type of toys is to be seen there including Star Wars, Doraemon, Mr Bean, Spiderman, Shrek and more.

Not only little figures and toys in the glass rack, there are quite a number of live size toys such as Batman and a Japanese Gundam robot that costs the owner RM9000.