Places to Visit

Le Musée du Jouet contains a vast collection of dolls, electric trains, and games amassed from various private collections and donations from the public.

The Super Museum proudly presents something for each generation of Superman fan to enjoy and discover about Clark Kent/Superman.

Known as Canada’s largest adventure gaming and science fiction and fantasy bookstore, The Sentry Box is a gathering place for local enthusiasts as well as a destination for out-of-towners looking to get their fix of geekery.

The 2017 edition of Ottawa Comiccon is coming up fast. If this year’s special guest list is any indication, Ottawa Comiccon’s reputation as a premier event is reaching far beyond city limits.

Do you have hours to marvel at toys, comics, cartoons, and other pop-culture memorabilia? If you stop at Geppi’s Entertainment Museum, you better have.

The second largest city in Estonia, Tartu is home to many of the country’s most renowned institutions, including the Tartu Toy Museum.

There’s no better home for the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) than Seattle, the city that gave us such pop-culture phenomena as Starbucks, grunge, and Sleepless in Seattle.

A new breed of museum, designed to encourage children (and adults) to access their innate creativity.

Whether you’re a pinball wizard or just a sorcerer’s apprentice, Museum of Pinball in Banning, California is the place to be if you want to hone your craft or rediscover your love of the game(s).

Their website says it best: “Replay Museum promotes the art, science, and cultural significance of mechanical amusement machines to preserve these historical artifacts for future generations.”

Part of The Strong National Museum of Play, the National Toy Hall of Fame houses the world’s largest collection of toys, dolls, board games, video games, books, photographs, and historical documents related to play.

Brantford, Ontario may be best known as the birthplace of hockey-great Wayne Gretzky, but the town is also home of the Personal Computer Museum.

While the Museum’s physical location closed in June 2016, their collection is available to view through a virtual tour on their website.

Britain’s national childhood collection ‒ consisting of toys, dolls, games, and costumes ‒ is housed here.

Funspot is the largest arcade in the world and they have the Guinness World Records stamp of approval to validate that claim.

Founded in 1971, the Nuremburg Toy Museum contains a collection of historical toys in a four-storey medieval-style building.

November 19 marks the 2016 edition of Local Comic Shop Day. In recognition of a day created to celebrate independently-owned shops, we want to share nine (yep, nine) favourite comic book shops from our travels and some of the shops on our list of places to visit.

Since 2014, this museum has pursued the goal of documenting and preserving Canada’s history of play.