The museum website is constantly updated with new exhibits. Today we present you the updates in the website section "Amusing Automata".*

The museum collection of amusing automata is unique, it is the only one of its kind in Russia, and it is recognised by experts as one of the most complete in the world. The museum exposition features all kinds and forms of mechanical toys of XVIII-XX centuries.

You will know much more about the collection of automata stored in the museum Collection by watching the video guide "Amusing automata dolls" , posted in the museum Video Archive. After viewing the video, you will get answers to many questions that arise while are getting acquainted with outlandish exhibits created in Paris in the late 19^th – early 20^th centuries at the studio of Aléxandre Théroude, the Roullet & Decamps firm, at the factory of Gustave Vichy, and enterprises of Jean Marie Phalibois and Blaise Bontems. These great artisans and craftsmen of the past centuries created technical and art masterpieces, fascinating items to the smallest details, dressed in exquisite costumes made of vintage fabrics and capable of performing dizzyingly complex movements.

On the cover: Musical automaton "Clown-acrobat". France, circa 1905

*Automaton is a clockwork mechanism mounted in a human, animal, or bird doll that moves to music and performs actions peculiar to its image.