There are however some special categories of dolls like the Japanese dolls, American dolls, African dolls, Russian dolls and cartoon dolls which can be seen in any doll museums.
Dollhouses the miniature form of houses which includes all the household items are also quite popular. These dollhouses were initially favorites of the children. But in the following years they became quite popular with the adults also. The design of these beautiful dollhouses attracted the attention of the adults. As these dollhouses became popular many companies engaged themselves in manufacturing these dollhouses.
The European company were the first to come into this field. There were a number of English and German companies who became famous dollhouses manufactureres. Dollhouses were made in different models attractive forms. These colorful dollhouses gained widespread attraction every where and they were exported all over the world.In the following years some Chinese and American companies also emerged who manufactured these dollhouses.
The popularity of these dolls and dollhouses can be recognised by the fact that a number of movies were made and books were written on them. There are some museums whohave awide range of collection of the dolls. Most famous of them being the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood, Johny Gruelle Raggedy Ann & Andy Museum, Deutsches Puppen-und Barenmuseum, Doll and Toy Museum,
Toy Museum in Prague, Yokohama Doll Museum, Shankar's International Doll Museum.
Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood which is one of the popular tourist destination of England has a wide collection of dolls and different other toys of children. From 19th century onwards Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood started collection of toys. However it gained the status of a popular doll's museum only in the year 1974.
Besides several dolls from all the four corners of the world your will find different other toys that are quite popular with the children. These toys range from teddy bears, puppets and model trains. Besides the dolls you can view some of the attractive dollhouse models in the Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood. Some of these dolls and dollhouses were being donated to the museum by the royal family of Britain. Some of the beautiful dolls which are displayed in the museum dates back as early as 17th century.
So next time you visit London dont forget to visit Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood.
Adress: Cambridge Heath Road,
London, E2 9PA
Phone no. - +44 (020) 8983 5200
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