Click for times to visit the Top Museum MORE ABOUT THE MUSEUM media, appearances and features, etc.  include: -AAA March Magazine, Get up & Go Section: Yo-Yo & Skill Toy Convention 2012 -featured in Wisconsin Trails Magazine May-June 2010.     "Just might be Wiconsin's most colorful museum..."   Story + beautiful color photo of  12 tops and spinners. -Tokyo, Japan: TV program Home Stay in the World, Yuki Ota, producer, worked with her for world record application  -the book WEIRD WISCONSIN includes us as a delightfully eccentric museum: Authors Linda S. Godfrey and Richard D. Hendricks (You may order a copy from us, autographed by the Top Lady, who is written about in the book. Email from this website for details.) -DISCOVER WISCONSIN TV program, airs in 9 states on FOX TV: Story    -PBS' Wild Chicago TV fun show of odd & unusual things in the greater Chicago area. Airs in 11 states.  We are in the Wild Chicago Book, too. -the cover of Spirit Magazine, with extensive article -Ripley’s Believe It or Not TV show (episode #420): first air October 2003, watch re-runs... they appear 2 or 3 times per year we hear  -Reminisce magazine, The Magazine That Brings Back the Good Times. 2 full pages center: story & photographs (Nov-Dec.1998) -introduced & recommended by the famous comedy team The Smother’s Brothers during their live show Milwaukee Magazine: feature article  the famous Green Sheet: front page feature, Milwaukee Journal Farm Family America magazine, featured article   Contact Kids Magazine, a Sesame Street publication Off Beat Museums book: one of the 50 museums selected from the entire United States for the book Toy Collector magazine Milwaukee Metro-Parent, feature about  the museum's annual Yo-Yo Convention tour books: Eccentric America; AAA Travel Guide; Oddball Wisconsin; Mobil Travel Guide; Fun with the Family in Wisconsin;  Great Little Museums of the Midwest; Museums, Zoos, & Botanical Gardens of Wisconsin by Anton Rajer, and many others contributor to Lucky's Collectors Guide to 20th Century Yo-Yos, which is in the Smithsonian (we are honored!) and copies are for sale in our gift shop  Wild Chicago Companion Guidebook to the Wildly poplular TV Show book by Will Cloinger, Mindy Bell, Harvey Moshman Games Around the World  - Spinning Toys  by Dana Meachen Rau: photographs of tops in the book are from the Top Museum, collection of Judith Schulz newspaper features include:  Burlington Standard Press, Journal Times (Racine County, WI), The Week (Delavan, WI), Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI), Green Bay Gazette, Kenosha News, Janeville Gazette,  Chicago Tribune, Chicago Daily Herald, Chicago Parent, Cleveland, The Indiania Times,  Simpson Free Press (Madison), Milwaukee's famous former prestigious Green Sheet, and  many other newspapers radio guest on talk shows including: WHAD (Wisconsin Public Radio), WRJN, WMCW, WFAW, WMIL (FM 106.1 country) and stations in 8+ other states and Canada and Australia  guest on television shows in 4 states MGM MOVIE:  The Top Museum and the Top Lady are listed in the credits of My Summer Story; sequel to A Christmas Story; as the Tops Expert. She taught the stars how to spin tops, provided top advice & is the actual & expert spinner for many of the scenes in the MGM film. Click on this for more on the the museum's role in the movie! Midwest Living Magazine, Nick, Jr. Magazine, & the Chicago Tribune  recommend our annual Yo-Yo Convention as a celebration to attend! Old World Wisconsin: a featured presentation at WPR's (Wisconsin Public Radio) Listener Appreciation Day luncheon program featured guest at Spotlight On Racine, a live news & comedy show with actors & interviewers for a live audience ChocolateFest:  conducted two yo-yo contests for the annual festival WBSD October 1, 2006   89.1 FM   an interview with the Spinning Top Museum director  CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation): Live radio interview on the Larry Fedoruk News/Talk Show 610 CBC about the Yo-Yo Convention held in March 2007 Verona, Italy: the International Guest as top spinner at International Festival of ancient and historic children's games that were (and are)  played in the streets and roads around the world GUMBO TV filmed segments at the 12th Annual Yo-Yo Convention, March 2007 On The Waterfront Music Festivals Rockford Illinois: Street performer KidsFest:  Hands-on top spinning with thousands of children and families at Wisconsin State Fair Park, sponsored by MetroParent Magzazine, April 15, 2007  Wisconsin Assisted Living Association Convention held in Madison Wisconsin: yo-yo performer at a company's booth: 2008 Wisconsin Woman Magazine April 2008: photo and info Yo-Yo Convention Conducted Yo-Yo Contest, Walworth County Fair 2008 WKOW Madison, Wisconsin 10 pm News Show: video segment called Someone You Should Know, Spring 2009 http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/category.asp?C=135523 Antique Week Magazine: Sept 2009, article about this museum and collecting yo-yos  SPINNING TOP & YO-YO MUSEUM    533 Milwaukee AV, Burlington, WI 53105  USA     www.topmuseum.org (262)763-3946   ...............................................................

gyroscopes are tops, too Gyroscopes are part of the exhibit at the Spinning Top Museum with examples  from many countries including France, England, the United States, Norway, China, and Japan.   Kinder eggs,  Marx Ballet Dancer, Mr.Potato Head, Charlie Brown, the Eiffel Tower, the Jockey Top Gyro, Wonder Clown, the Jumping Wizard, endless classic gyroscopes from numerous manufacturers plus many Wizzzers are exhibited, to name a few.  The annual Gyroscope Contest is held at the museum with Tedco gyroscopes as the prizes. You are invited to the contest, just give us a call for the time and date.  (262)763-3946        TOPS & GYROSCOPES FOR SALE/CATALOG   ..................................................................        The Spinning Top & Yo-Yo Museum is         a unique tourist attraction for bus tours,          group tours, families.         Call to arrange a tour time.