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After a lifetime of planning, it has finally happened! more
details will follow as the doll drama unfolds, but The American Doll & Toy
Museum will open the first week of December! This will be a smaller
version of our collection because of space limitations, but there will be
representative dolls from prehistory to the present, and a nice selection of
doll houses, miniatures, toys and related objects.
Many of you also follow our
main doll museum blog, Dr. E's Doll
Museum
In and Toy Museum
We'll have a small book shop
selling doll related objects, vintage paper airplanes, licensed merchandise
books, and perhaps some small antiques from the shop behind us. We also have a
GoFundMe Page for donations. https://www.gofundme.com/manage/ellen039s-campaign-for-american-doll-and-toy-museum
There will be special events
and give a ways. We'll celebrate each season and holiday, too. There will
be rotating displays of all kinds.
I plan on have a doll trinket
to give to each visitor as a memento.
Many of you have seen the
displays of my dolls at various museums. I've collected since age 3, and have
been planning this museum since grade school. We will join a small
neighbor hood near one of my alma maters called College Hill, which hosts other
events and houses several antique stores, a cafe, a hometown bar and grill, a
hometown barber shop, sports apparel shop and more. We will be contributing
to small business and to our community.
We welcome everyone; we aren't
just for doll collectors and dealers, and we hope by embracing the general
public, that we will also encourage young collectors.
Below are some of our citizens,
and there is a YouTube video with more.
