Bandai Museum / Toys Before 1900
The Advanced Technology Exhibition Hall @ TEPIA was established by Association for Technological Excellence Promoting Innovative Advances (TEPIA) in 1989. It is a venue in which visitors can learn about a variety of advanced technologies that are the pride of Japan. They can also learn about the role plastics play in these technologies. (For more information, see the February 2011 issue of the PR magazine pla-topia.) http://tepia.jp/exhibition/index.html
Toys Before 1900
Among objects excavated from archeological sites predating the Christian era, stuffed figures in human shape, clay dolls, and stone figures of animals have been found. Also, before the Industrial Revolution (1700s), game boards and dice, doll houses and other toys were handmade by craftsmen. Many of the model toys appearing since the Industrial Revolution have been manufactured employing steam, electricity, and other of the newest technologies available at the time they were produced.
