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Recently Argentina’s interest in vintage, classic and antique toys has grown immensely. After over 10 years of working and researching the world of toys and games in our country, we acknowledge the fact that winds are changing and the society as a whole is paying much more attention to their history and that of their playful items. This can be seen in the consolidation of a number of toy oriented projects going on in the city of Buenos Aires, each unique and interesting within its own conception and objectives. Along with the Buenos Aires Toy Museum’s exhibit at the British Arts Center, we’ve been witnesses to another toy break thru in our city. Our friends of the Museo del Juguete Argentino of the Camara del juguete has opened their show at Costa Salguero center, Primera Fiesta Nacional del Juguete from July 22nd to August 2nd, specially organized for the Argentine winter school break. Daniela Pelegrinelli is the curator of the Museo and our friend, for a long time now. She has put together an exhibit of 400 toys, all made in Argentina and ranging from the Jeep Loco, Estanciero, El Cerebro Magico, El Constructor Infantil, a variety of tin tops, wooden bowling balls, paper-mach dolls, cars, construction games and sowing machines among others… The Camara del Juguete was the industrial chamber of the toy industry in Argentina and as such, all its members have contributed with donations to create an official set of made in Argentina toys. We’ve started our projects almost paralleled in time, with similar interests though different objectives. That’s what makes of both of our projects complementary and interesting to enjoy. While they began their work with the chamber of toy industry’s members to recover their products and acknowledge their evolution in our history, we began to address each and every product made in our country as culturally artistic objects that reflected not only our history but the way of life, the ideas and projects in the air when they were being produced. Our artistic approach to collectibles has provided us with an amazing insight to the world of toys were we can discover local and foreign influences in terms of design and history. On the other hand, the reconstruction work our friends have to carry on given the fact that there are no records available on the history of toys, provide us both with a common ground in which we can both share experiences and results, and therefore complement our projects and provide the world of collectors an achieved image of our toys and their history. One interesting coincidence in the evolution of these two complementary though different antique toy projects is that we’ve both found the need to build a special museum, to show our conception, our point of view, a place to which collectors can refer to and be welcomed. We, in our artistic approach to toys have created a show-room gallery concept in which toys and artwork provide the collector and toy lover with a modern and up beat atmosphere in which the toys of yore are presented in a special conceptual display along with precise historical information. Therefore the aesthetic side and the historical and cultural sides complement the final image production for the collector who wants more. The Museo de la Camara del Juguete and the Buenos Aires Toy Museum are two original and interesting projects that grew and developed in our town during the past decade for children and adults alike, for all those who treasure toys and childhood, as well as for the ones who come from the artistic world and enjoy its productions. Bob Frassinetti,