Small kitchen utensils for playing at cooking are classic toys of symbolic play, through which children imitate the actions of the everyday life of adults, develop their creative thinking and learn to solve conflicts.

The Museum has a substantial collection of toy kitchens, a pre-eminent item of which is the one that belonged to the outstanding mathematician and teacher Maria Antònia Canals i Tolosa, born in 1930. This toy kitchen was given to her at the age of five when she contracted tuberculosis and had to undergo a long period of rest. She kept it until 2017, when she donated it to the Museum. We also have the toy kitchen set made expressly for the Toy Museum of Catalonia by the potter Lluís Cornellà i Font, of La Bisbal d’Empordà, which reproduces traditional pieces of smoked earthenware in miniature. Cornellà was the last descendent of a lineage of potters, who continued to make smoked earthenware in the traditional manner in his workshop from 1950 to 1979.