Childhood Memories

I had a chance to visit the Museum of Childhood in London ,home to one of the world’s finest collections of children’s toys, doll’s houses, games and costumes. . Part of the Victoria & Albert Museum, the museum has been amassing childhood-related objects since 1872. 

What really interested me in the Museum was the moving toys section which had handmade toys like antique sand shadow boxes, Victorian zoetropes, praxinoscopes and shadow puppets from Indonesia . I was fascinated with a moving toy like a rotating exquisite corpses with  drawings victorian costumes on wood.Many of the ideas in the museum could be adopted to create interactive installations.