European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 21, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Left the Kitchen in a doll House built by i Carpenter Lor the couple who adopted him. Below Lydia Bayer the director of Nifte Nurnberg toy museum. A passion for a mechanical Bear made in 1925, and a hand caned woman from 19th-Century Russia Story and photos by Effie Bathen Nurnberg Bureau at the turn of the Century when Lydia Bayer s Mother was ,1 Gid of 10. She had to give up her favorite doll House to a child from a poor family. The loll House was t elaborate. It had Cost less than a Dollar and held Only a few pennies Worth of miniature furnishings. But the Guiyi mad loved to play with it and she fell the loss deeply. As the girl grew to adulthood she became an ardent collector of toys. It was a passion she shared with her family including her daughter Lydia. Today the Bayer collection is the heart of the Nurnberg toy museum in West Germany and Lydia Bayer is the museum s director. Those toys and others that have been loaned or donated to the museum Lill three rooms of a four Story medieval town noise. Eventually when building renovations Are i of Pele the exhibits will fill eight rooms Bayer  a Bill the i current display of hundreds of toys from around the , some of them centuries old is enough to lustily an afternoon visit. " toys Are Good things is what my Mother told me Bayer says. They mean fun and Joy. By looking at the things from different times each person finds something from his own childhood. And Ihen he has a Good  she says. That s what mailers to her Antl that s what the museum is Ull about. Among Bayer s sentimental favourites Are some dolls will clothes that her grandmother made by hand and a c Hildren s Book that belonged to her Mother. She especially admires an antique doll House that stands about a Yard High and at least As wide. A grateful German Carpenter built in about 1910 for the family thai had adopted him when he was a child. Ii has inlaid parquet floors Ull Putian Sie furniture and an oven in a co a Kitchen thai appears ready to turn out doll si/t1 treats. 4 stripes Magazine december 21, 1989