Text and photos by Aldo Zana
When you have a dream and your family name is Porsche, you can make it happen. Grandfather Ferdinand, the “Professor”, designed the P-Wagen Grand Prix Auto Union and the Volkswagen; his only son, Ferry, established and ran the Porsche brand from the early 356 to the 911; grandson Hans-Peter (78, Ferry’s third son) built a paradise on earth for lovers of the world and art of tin toys.
In 2015, he opened to the public “Traumwerk” (it could be translated as: “The factory of dreams”), a museum celebrating the history and tradition of tin toys across nearly a century, from the late Eighteenth century to the 1970s, when plastic and die-cast metal alloy became the main materials for scale models of cars, aicrafts, trains and ships.