The London Toy and Model Museum
The London Toy and Model Museum
Address: 21/23 Craven Hill, London W2 3EN
0171 706 8000
Situated in the Bayswater area, this charming quaint museum is a great area to let an apartment nearby. The London Toy & Model Museum was open for seventeen years in a small building in Bayswater, London.
In February 1999, much to your author's dismay the museum closed - not because it wasn't popular, or was failing to make money, but simply because the owning company were forced to sell because of their own financial difficulties.
Since then a number of deep pocketed buyers have expressed an interest in acquiring either the museum or its collection as a way of rescuing the 7,500 objects from passing into private collections, never to be seen thereafter. Rumor is that the offers made haven't been enough, and have been turned down by the owning company - which seems to feel it can make more out of a selling the collection and building separately.