About us
Beantown Model Collectors’ Association (BMCA) was founded as a hobby club in the year 2017 by Aditya Menon, who is also the President of the Association. BMCA represents a group of like-minded hobbyists sharing a common passion of collecting miniature scale models of cars, motorcycles, aeroplanes, trains, ships, important historical buildings, human figurines and dioramas.
Most of BMCA’s Members have been collecting scale models, as a hobby, since childhood. Some of us stopped collecting as children and rekindled our interest and passion in this hobby as adults. We consider this a serious hobby and all of us value our collections as investments rather than just objects of desire.
In 2021 BMCA was registered as an Association under the Karnataka Societies Act. We have 26 active Members at present (view our Members in the “Meet the Beantowners” section below). Membership is exclusive and is subject to the Managing Committee’s approval. Membership at BMCA is paid and the minimum joining age is 18 years. Should you like to join BMCA please leave us a note in the “Contact Us” section and we will hit you back as soon as we can.
One of BMCA’s objectives is to visit schools and impress upon children the importance of inculcating a hobby. In today’s world where children are given pocket money from a young age we feel investing a small portion of that in your hobby can instil values such as discipline, responsibility and sharing (not just physical possessions but also knowledge and ideas) besides being a source of education and learning. One of our long term objectives is to open a scale model museum in the city of Bengaluru.
