Pollocks Toy Museum

The Museum
Pollock’s Toy Museum occupies two houses joined together in the heart of Fitzrovia, one 18th century, one 19th; the rooms are small and connected by narrow winding staircases. The whole place exudes atmosphere and evocations of those special times of childhood. Every corner is filled with visual delights and no matter which direction you look new surprises are there to behold.
Staircase 1
Board Games
Room 1
Optical, mechanical and construction toys
Room 2
English tin toys; puppets
Room 3
Wax and composition dolls
Room 4
Teddy bears, lead miniatures, doll’s houses
Staircase 2
Folk toys from Europe
Room 5
Dolls of china, wood, fabric, celluloid.
Tableau: 1900 young girls’ nursery1
Staircase 3
English dolls; folk toys from around the world
Room 6
Toy theatres. Tableau: 19c. toy theatre workshop
Ground floor
Pollock’s Toyshop

Location
1 Scala Street
London W1T 2HL
t 020 7636 3452

Opening Hours
Monday to Saturday
10 am – 5 pm
Last entry to museum 4.30pm
Closed Bank Holidays

How to get there
By Underground :
Goodge Street, Warren Street,
Euston Square,
Tottenham Court Road
By Rail : Kings Cross, Euston,
St. Pancras
By Bus: see map

History

Pollocks Toy Museum takes its name from Benjamin Pollock, the last of the Victorian Toy Theatre printers. Set up by Marguerite Fawdry who bought up the stock of Benjamin Pollock Ltd., after trying to buy one small item for her son’s toy theatre. Originally at Monmouth Street, near Covent Garden, the present museum has been at Scala Street since 1969.

Nearly every kind of toy imaginable turns up here from all over the world and from all different time perods. It’s a fascinating exhibition of toy theatres, teddy bears, wax and china dolls, board games, optical toys, folk toys, nursery furniture, mechanical toys and doll’s houses.

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