«IT’S HERE AND NOWHERE ELSE»
A UNIQUE place to be found at the Creative Talent Village:
170 m² to discover the exciting collection of old toys and unusual objects gathered for more than 40 years by Jean-Marie LERDINO!
«REFLECTION OF OUR SOCIETY»
In the diversity of the offers of the Village des Talents Créatifs, the BIEN JOUET museum has just opened its doors, after the meeting between the founder of the Village, Luc Martin, with an open and dynamic spirit, and a somewhat atypical collector of old toys in the person of Jean-PaulMarie Lerdino. A teacher who became deaf around the age of 30, thus deprived of contact with men, Jean-Marie Lerdino turned to objects that do not speak but have a lot to tell. He turned his disability into a springboard for activities. It was well done and, given the theme chosen... GOOD TOY! The Bien Jouet Collection exhibits a part of this incredible collection that Jean-Marie Lerdino has gathered for more than forty years and which today has more than 4,000 toys. As a manufactured object, the toy has benefited from improvements in the industry (steam, electricity, etc.) and, as it prepares the child for his adult life, it covers all areas of activity: from farm to space, through LEGO and MECCANO. It thus offers an extraordinary mirror of our way of life and it is a little more than the image of «joujou» usually widespread. It did not take very long for Luc the creative and Jean-Marie the pedagogue to put together a whole that goes far beyond the idea of the ordinary museum.