The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures

About Us

Since 1982, The National Museum of Toys and Miniatures (formerly the Toy and Miniature Museum of Kansas City) has delighted audiences with an extensive collection of historically significant toys and fine-scale miniatures. The Museum’s co-founders, Mary Harris Francis and Barbara Hall Marshall, had amassed large personal collections when they had the idea to open a museum and share their collections.

The Museum opened in the historic Tureman Mansion on the campus of the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). The Museum expanded in 1989 and 2004, to its current size of 33,000 square feet. In 2014-15, the Museum was closed for 19 months for renovations, reopening on August 1, 2015. The Museum’s collection currently numbers more than 100,000 objects—and counting.