- In the 1920s, it began to focus on services for children, and in 1974 the director of the V&A, Sir Roy Strong, defined it as a specialist museum of childhood.
- The museum opened in 1955, the brainchild of town councillor Patrick Murray, and was the first museum in the world to specialise in the history of childhood.
- Even if it called Museum of Childhood, this annex of the Victoria and Albert Museum is more of a collection of objects concerning everyone's childhood...
- The Museum of Childhood is set in two historic buildings straddling South Gray’s Close on the Royal Mile. Both buildings were constructed in the 18th century.
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- The Museum of Childhood is great for drop-in events in half terms and holidays
- Free storytelling and craft sessions are held for children of all ages every day
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- The V&A Museum of Childhood in London is home to the largest collection of childhood objects in the UK ranging in date from the 1600’s to the present day.
- The Museum of Childhood is set in two historic buildings straddling South Gray’s Close on the Royal Mile. Both buildings were constructed in the 18th century.
- So it might come as a surprise that one of the first places she took us to both times she has been in Edinburgh was its Museum of Childhood.
- The Museum of Childhood, part of the V&A’s family of museums, is well known for the quality of its collections and for its educational activities.