The toy museum at Canik in Samsun opened in 2017 and is described by the provincial culture and tourism directorate as the largest of its kind in Türkiye.
Close to a thousand toys are displayed here, grouped as traditional, factory-made, foreign, antique and domestic. Children can widen their imaginations here and at the same time follow how the toy changed through history.
The oldest piece in the museum is a figure of the eighteenth century and the newest a doll dating from 1982.
The museum is on Girne Sokak in the Belediye Evleri quarter of Canik, within the Mevlana education and culture campus. Some of the workshops held inside are paid.
Visiting hours
- Visiting hours
- 10:00 - 16:00, closed Sunday and Monday
Entry fee
- Entry fee
- Free
When to go
- Climate
- Across Samsun as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 7.2 °C in February to 23.7 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in November (83 mm) and lightest in July (35 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
