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, and you know that I am Dr. E and this is our unofficial name. I started a new Facebook Page called American Doll
In and Toy Museum, and will follow up with a Twitter, Pinterest, and other social media accounts to spread the word.
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.
Doll Museum Video; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_TLGmyLKIw&t=158s
Happy Collecting, and thanks to all who have contributed in every way possible!
We will be adding photos, beginning with ancient dolls, as an annexe to the museum; visit us on Facebook, Dr. E's Doll Museum, and on Twitter @Dr. E's Doll Museum. We also have Facebook pages Doll Universe, Antique Doll, and Dr. R. We are on Flickr under Ellen Tsagaris, and ISSUU as Old Dolls. Our other Twitter account is Old Dolls. On Instagram, we are ellen_tsagaris. In keeping with our new non profit name, we've changed the name of this blog. All we need now is the building!!