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V&A Museum of Childhood

Address: Cambridge Heath Rd., East End, London, E2 PPA
Phone: 020/8983-5200
www.vam.ac.uk/moc

Category: Museums/Galleries
Location: East End

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Fodor's Review:

This is the East End outpost of the Victoria & Albert Museum—in fact, this entire iron, glass, and brown-brick building was transported here from South Kensington in 1875. Since then, its contents have grown into the biggest toy collection in the world. The large Dolls' Houses collection is a bit like the Geffrye Museum zapped into miniature, with houses of every period. Each genre of plaything has its own enclosure, so if teddy bears are your weakness, you need waste no time with the train sets or board games. The museum's title is justified in the fascinating galleries on the social history of childhood from baby dolls to Beanie Babies. Don't miss the magnificent 18th-century puppet theater, thought to have been made in Venice to show commedia dell'arte(comedy of art) plays.

Cost: Free
Open: Daily 10-5:45, last admission 5:30
Tube: Bethnal Green

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