A teddy bear museum is a museum about teddy bears. There are many teddy bear museums around the world.[ citation needed ]
The world's first Teddy Bear Museum was based in Petersfield, Hampshire, England.[ citation needed ] It was founded by Judy Sparrow in 1984, and housed a collection of antique teddy bears and related items.[ citation needed ] It closed in 2006.[ citation needed ]
The British broadcaster Gyles Brandreth founded a Teddy Bear Museum in Stratford-upon-Avon. After 18 years it was relocated to the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon, London [1] and then, in 2016, relocated again to Newby Hall, near Ripon, in North Yorkshire. [2]
The V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green also has an extensive range of teddy bears.[ citation needed ]
The Jeju Teddy bear museum in South Korea has many kinds of teddy bears from various countries. [3]
The Izu Teddy Bear Museum opened in Itō, Shizuoka, Japan in 1995. It has a collection of various teddy bears, including "Teddy Girl". [4]
Stratford-upon-Avon, commonly known as just Stratford, is a market town and civil parish in the Stratford-on-Avon district, in the county of Warwickshire, in the West Midlands region of England. It is situated on the River Avon, 91 miles (146 km) north-west of London, 22 miles (35 km) south-east of Birmingham and 8 miles (13 km) south-west of Warwick. The town is the southernmost point of the Arden area on the edge of the Cotswolds. In the 2021 census Stratford had a population of 30,495.
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