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Star Toys Museum — 14,000 Star Wars Pieces

📍 Maryland, Linthicum Heights

One man's home turned into perhaps the world's most complete Star Wars museum: 14,000+ figures, models, and a holographic Princess Leia, near Baltimore, by appointment.

A galaxy in a suburban home

Thomas Atkinson started the Star Toys Museum in a single room of his Linthicum Heights house outside Baltimore. It has since sprawled to more than 14,000 Star Wars pieces — action figures, vehicles, housewares, costumes, signage, and large-scale display models — making it arguably the most comprehensive Star Wars collection open to the public anywhere.

Highlights include a holographic Princess Leia and a giant Millennium Falcon. It’s a genuine roadside-America classic, the kind of obsessive one-person shrine the genre was made for.

Visiting

  • By appointment only — book a free tour and the address is shared with you.
  • A collector’s home, not a commercial attraction, so plan ahead and be courteous.
  • Submitted to Cinnamon Land by “ghost popsicle,” who spotted it on Roadside America.

🐿️ Cinnamon was here

Field report

Ghost popsicle tipped me to a house near Baltimore where one collector turned their home into arguably the most complete Star Wars museum anywhere: 14,000-plus figures, models, props, and a holographic Princess Leia, viewable by appointment, run on pure fan devotion.

Appointment-only means you get the tour from the collector, which is the real exhibit — every shelf has a story, every variant a hunt behind it. I toured shelf-level (obviously) through ranks of stormtroopers arranged with military correctness and found the single most relatable object in the galaxy: a tiny Ewok, my size, my energy, my people.

Book ahead, be gracious, leave a donation — houses like this run on love and electricity. Museums built by institutions impress me. Museums built by one person's whole heart undo me. This is the second kind.

— Cinnamon 🐿️

📸 Cinnamon's camera roll

Snapshots from our very good boy on the road.

Touring shelf-level through stormtrooper ranks arranged with military correctness, guided by the collector himself — every variant has a hunt behind it.
The single most relatable object in the galaxy: a tiny Ewok. My size, my energy, my people. Mon-chan claims Chewbacca as his people and will not be argued with.
🏷️ Pop Culture 🏷️ Collection 🏷️ Star Wars

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