History is always written by the conquerors, and, while they’re at it, they create figures and dress them in uniforms as we can see in this outstanding collection of toy soldiers dressed in the uniforms of the winners of the Spanish Civil War.

Along these same lines, the Museum also has a game called “La Entrada en Madrid” (Storming Madrid), dating from 1940, in which the Falange Española Tradicionalista y de las Juntas de Ofensiva Nacional Sindicalista (Traditionalist Spanish Phalanx of the Committees of the National Syndicalist Offensive), the Infantry and regular troops have a showdown to see who will enter Madrid first.

The flamboyant language of Spanish fascism is evident in the title of the 1939 game “La Reconquista de España” (The Reconquest of Spain), in which we follow the crusade led by the dictator Francisco Franco to free Spain from the hordes of Reds, Masons and separatists, as he and his followers put it.

In addition to tin soldiers and other war games, this section also includes the vision of artist Antoni Miralda on the drama of war in a piece dating back to 1969 that is made with plastic soldiers, and that of Francesc Abad in an unusual chess set created in 1989

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