A teddy bear museum is a museum about teddy bears . There are many teddy bear museums around the world.
4-657: The Dorset Teddy Bear Museum is a teddy bear museum in Dorchester , Dorset , south west England . The museum includes Teddy Bear House and displays antique and other teddy bears . It initially opened in 1990, in Bournemouth under the title of 'The Bournemouth Bears', but moved to a Victorian building in Dorchester in 1995 and is regarded as the oldest teddy bear museum in Britain. The Dorset Teddy Bear Museum
8-459: Is owned by World Heritage, who also own The Terracotta Warriors Museum and The Tutankhamun Exhibition, also in Dorchester. Bears on display include Paddington Bear , Rupert Bear , and Winnie the Pooh . The earliest bear dates from 1906, and there are also life-sized bears. This toy -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article relating to a museum in
12-629: The United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Teddy bear museum The world's first Teddy Bear Museum was based in Petersfield , Hampshire , England . It was founded by Judy Sparrow in 1984, and housed a collection of antique teddy bears and related items. It closed in 2006. The British broadcaster Gyles Brandreth founded a Teddy Bear Museum in Stratford-upon-Avon . After 18 years it
16-774: Was relocated to the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon, London and then, in 2016, relocated again to Newby Hall , near Ripon , in North Yorkshire. The V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green also has an extensive range of teddy bears. The Jeju Teddy bear museum in South Korea has many kinds of teddy bears from various countries. The Izu Teddy Bear Museum opened in ItΕ, Shizuoka , Japan in 1995. It has
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