Boxenstop Auto- und Spielzeugmusem

Boxenstop Auto- und Spielzeugmuseum sits in Germany, a place where classic cars and old toys gather under one roof. Rainer and Ute Klink opened it in 1985, sharing their private collection with anyone who stepped inside. From a hall of two hundred square metres, the collection has spread across twelve hundred.

More than seventy vehicles stand ready to roll: vintage cars, motorcycles, even bicycles, each kept in running order. A Lotus Eleven and a Maserati 4CL wait among them, alongside the record-breaking Lloyd. Deeper in, glass cases hold more than a thousand toys from past decades. Tiny model cars line up beside antique Märklin trains and little figures of every kind. You can picture the hands, big and small, that once pushed them along imaginary roads and rails.

Visitors often say the outside gives nothing away. Families wander, collectors linger, and a model railway some fifty years old runs at the centre of it all. Its trains still chug through their landscape, just as they did when the layout was new.