Category:London Toy and Model Museum: Difference between revisions

"Toys at the London Toy and Model Museum", ISBN 090456892X (New Cavendish, 1989), editors Allen Levy and Narisa Chakra [image info]

Promotional leaflet, The London Toy and Model Museum [image info]

Ticket, The London Toy and Model Museum [image info]

The London Toy and Model Museum (21/23 Craven Hill, London W2 3EN) opened in 1982, and closed circa 1999.

The museum occupied several floors of a residential building, which then required extensive refit work to make it compatible with accessibility and fire regulations.

The museum was sold to Fujita Corporation in 1989 for four million pounds, who invested a further 5.5 million in the refit (which commenced in 1994), but enthusiastic toy collector Kazuaki Fujita died in 1995, and the museum found it difficult to survive as a going concern and pay back the investment that had been required for its refit.

The museum closed down in ~February 1999 (its Director is listed as having resigned on 17 August 1999).

Closure

Eventually the collection was broken up and sold, with many of the pieces going to Japan, and the building turned into residential flats.

Address

• London Toy and Model Museum, 21-23 Craven Hill, London W2

External links

• "London's Toy Museum to be broken up", by David Lister Arts News Editor, Saturday 27 February 1999 (independent.co.uk)
• London Toy and Model Museum (londononline.co.uk)
• Archived copy of the London Toy Museum's old website, WayBackMachine (web.archive.org)

• London Toy and Model Museum (binnsroad.co.uk)

• Company info: THE LONDON TOY & MODEL MUSEUM COMPANY LIMITED (company-information.service.gov.uk)

• London Toy & Model Museum (1989), garden railway (youtube.com) – video