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The museum has over 30,000 guests each year and about 30,000 farm toys; it is also the center of the National Farm Toy Show. The National Farm Toy Museum includes one of the largest collections of cast iron farm toys. [1] The museum is a part of yearly toy shows in June [2] and November. The first floor of the museum has a 10-minute short film ...
Dyersville is a thriving farming city with a long history. It is nicknamed "The Farm Toy Capital of the World" because it hosts a farm toy show the first weekend in June and the National Farm Toy Show the first weekend in November. [18] [unreliable source?] It is also the longtime home of the Ertl Company, a maker of die-cast farm toys ...
The National Farm Toy Museum, a museum located in Dyersville, Iowa that specializes in preserving and displaying scale models, replicas, and toys based on farm equipment. The Harold Bell Wright Museum/Toy Museum as known as The World's Largest Toy Museum displayed American toys from the 1800s to 1990s including Star Wars and 1950 Western toys ...
1986 - Ertl produces Thomas & Friends licensed toys; 1987 - Hanson plc purchases Kidde. Ertl acquires ESCI model kit company; 1989 - Racing Champions is founded by Bob Dods, Boyd Meyer and Peter Chung; 1990 - Ertl releases the first Precision Series farm toy replica; 1991–92 - Racing Champions obtains NASCAR license; 1992 - Fred Ertl Jr ...
The original house and barn are still on the fairground's property. Other structures from the farm survived into the late 1940s when they were torn down. In 1886 the Iowa Legislature and the city of Des Moines appropriated funds and the first buildings were built. They were frame buildings that used boards and battens as exterior wall covering.
The Iowa State Fair had 1,182,682 people attendees in 2024, which broke the all-time fair attendance record of 1,170,375 set in 2019. This is also 48,724 more people than 2023, which saw 1,133,958 ...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — More than 4 million chickens in Iowa will have to be killed after a case of the highly pathogenic bird flu was detected at a large egg farm, the state announced Tuesday.
This list of museums in Iowa is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.