At which public library are the original Winnie the Pooh toys displayed?

The original Winnie-the-Pooh toys are displayed at the New York Public Library.

The collection includes the real stuffed animals that belonged to Christopher Robin Milne and inspired characters in his father’s books. The best-known toys are Winnie-the-Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet, Kanga, and Tigger; Roo was eventually lost. They were purchased in England, beginning with Christopher Robin’s teddy bear from Harrods.

The toys came to the United States in 1947 and remained with E. P. Dutton, A. A. Milne’s American publisher, until the publisher donated them to the New York Public Library in 1987. They are historic objects, not merely replicas made for a museum display.

Today, the toys are associated with the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street in Manhattan, where they form part of the Library’s children’s-literature treasures. Visitors sometimes confuse the institution with a particular branch, but the canonical answer is the New York Public Library.