This toy museum in Mexico city has one of the largest vintage toy collections in the world and it's all thanks to one very dedicated collector.
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00:20My name is Roberto Shimizu Kaneko.
00:24I am a collector.
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00:29I can say that I started collecting when I was 10 years old.
00:33My father was a very prosperous merchant
00:37and he always supported me.
00:40So, all my life I was able to acquire
00:44all the objects that made me happy.
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01:04There are about 40,000 to 50,000 pieces in the museum at the moment.
01:11We have several million pieces in the warehouses.
01:15It is the largest collection of toys in the world
01:19and the largest museum of toys in the world.
01:23It includes Mexican, Japanese, German toys
01:28on a smaller scale because they produced less,
01:31English, French, Italian or Spanish toys.
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01:49Life, as I see it,
01:53is a succession of seconds or minutes.
01:59And in this life we are having a succession of memories
02:05that are forming the memory.
02:08So, for me, those basic memories of childhood memory,
02:13we would say, is the happiest time of your life.
02:17The toys are like instant of that moment.
02:22We have had Alzheimer's patients here
02:27who, when they see a toy, remember many passages
02:31that, of course, they had already forgotten.
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