Category:London Toy and Model Museum
"Toys at the London Toy and Model Museum", ISBN 090456892X (New Cavendish, 1989), editors Allen Levy and Narisa Chakra [image info]
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Promotional leaflet, The London Toy and Model Museum [image info]
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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
Media in category ‘London Toy and Model Museum’
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40 Years of Paddington (LTMM 1998).jpg 1,547 × 2,200; 1.14 MB
Brochure (London Toy and Model Museum).jpg 1,200 × 842; 308 KB
Ticket (London Toy and Model Museum).jpg 600 × 418; 71 KB
Toys at The London Toy and Model Museum, ISBN 090456892X.jpg 872 × 1,200; 301 KB
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