The Kruger Street toy and train museum is a place to relive your childhood memories

The Kruger Street Toy and Train museum is located at 144 Kruger St Wheeling, West Virginia. The museum is opened every day from 9am and closes at 5pm.

The museum exhibits toys and trains from all generations, including a scale model of downtown wheeling, the Ohio Room which is full of history and culture, and fully operating train layouts. When visiting the museum visitors are treated to guide or self guided tours, interactive displays, a gift shop and a restored railroad caboose. There are thousands of toys in the museum, toys such as Doll Houses, Toy Soldiers, trucks, cars, bikes and planes. The list of toys at the museum is endless.

It is encouraged that visitors take photos of the visit to the museum to help create long lasting memories of their visit.

Tours at the museum are never the same; tour guides do not do `scripted' tours. Visitors do not need to use a guide, but by using a guide you will have any questions or queries that you may have answered.

In the front lobby of the museum is a fully operating Thomas layout along with a case that is full of toys from Kids Meals. When starting a tour of the museum, the first room to visit is the Doll Room, in this room visitors will be able to view dolls that were the most popular during a certain year and all the accessories that came with these dolls. Barbie is included in the Doll Room.

The next room to visit is the Western Room. In this room are the western heroes. Cowboys, Indians, Horses, Miniatures and play sets that show Western American culture. Following the Western Room is the Combat Room. In here are combat toys, uniforms and many cars and trucks. Included in this room are GI Joe, Ben Hur, Star Wars and Star Trek.

The toybox room is full of different types of toys from the 1900's. This room houses the Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, Construction sets such as Lego, Ezy Bake Ovens, Raggedy Ann and Andy.

The last room is the Train Room. This room contains toy trains that were built by toy manufacturers such as Marx and American Flyer. There are exhibits of train gauges, a model of a lift bridge, scale trains and accessories. There are many other exhibits that change throughout the year.

Upstairs in the museum is one of the old school classrooms. This room contains original school desks and artifacts from the school. The Ohio Room has a model of the city of Wheeling, Jamboree USA, Steel Works and Chuck Yeager, who was the first person to break the sound barrier; he was born and raised in West Virginia.

The museum building was built in 1907 and used as a public school house. The building remained part of the school until 1991; in 1997 it became the home of the Kruger Street Toy and Train Museum. In 2000 the museum won the Grand Victorian Award for Victorian building restoration. The museum hosts the

The museums philosophy is `...that all of us are children at heart. This museum has been created to help you find that child within and make good memories that will last forever.'