Victoria and Albert Museum of Childhood – London, England
Britain’s national childhood collection ‒ consisting of toys, dolls, games, and costumes ‒ is housed here.
Plan your next vacation to include a visit to a play-related store, museum, or private collection.
Britain’s national childhood collection ‒ consisting of toys, dolls, games, and costumes ‒ is housed here.
Funspot is the largest arcade in the world and they have the Guinness World Records stamp of approval to validate that claim.
Founded in 1971, the Nuremburg Toy Museum contains a collection of historical toys in a four-storey medieval-style building.
November 19 marks the 2016 edition of Local Comic Shop Day. In recognition of a day created to celebrate independently-owned shops, we want to share nine (yep, nine) favourite comic book shops from our travels and some of the shops on our list of places to visit.
Since 2014, this museum has pursued the goal of documenting and preserving Canada’s history of play.
3D printers, laser cutters, open-source hardware, and upcycling were all front-and-center at the 2016 Maker Faire Ottawa.
If you missed your chance to experience the Atari 400 in person when it was released in 1979, don’t fret. Living Computers: Museum +Labs has your back.
Just when you think Portland, Oregon can’t get any cooler, along comes the Ground Kontrol Classic Arcade.
The Burlingame Museum of PEZ Memorabilia is actually three museums in one.
Featuring toys and dolls from the late nineteenth through the early twentieth century, The Toy and Doll Museum is a doll collectors paradise.
Montreal, Canada is the new home of Barbie Expo, a toy exhibition where haute couture, world-renowned designers, and Mattel’s iconic Barbie doll co-mingle.
Moving far beyond the “items in glass cases” format of many museums, Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh offers visitors an opportunity to design, make, and play within the realms of art and science.
Austin, Texas is already known as a hotbed of unique and interesting things to see and do; Austin Toy Museum adds another layer of fun to this dynamic city.
Ottawa Comiccon 2016 is just around the corner (May 13-15, 2016) at the EY Centre. Here are 8 things you need to know.
Located in a restored Victorian school, the Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum houses a large collection of toys & trains and includes speciality rooms focused on miniatures, games, and transportation.
A stop at the Lunch Box Museum in Columbus, Georgia will let you relive that feeling of childhood wonderment of standing in front of a department store shelf trying to decide which lunch box should accompany you to school.
Action-figure enthusiasts will get their fill at the Toy and Action Figure Museum. Opened in 2000, it houses more than 13,000 action figures as well as hundreds of original drawings from some of the state’s noted cartoonists.
The brainchild of independent designer, Daniel Siskind, the Brickmania Toys company is focused on creating LEGO kits that fall outside of LEGO’s official product lines.