London #1

Hi guys!!! Today is my first full day in London. So we headed to the Child museum which was by the bank, which we were heading to because we were going to pay our rent, but it was bank holiday.

The child museum consist of toys that date from 1710 to 2013. It also talkes about the thinkings of children and their uses of toys. The most interesting part for me was the automated section, this showed mainly music boxes that did actions and also race cars which would drive without being pushed. Now you might all be like "really those things are like so lamé," ya but this was in the 18-19th century... THEY DIDN'T HAVE WIFI! sorry had a little panic attack there. But these were cutting edge back in those days. 

This is a 3D puppet theater that allows the puppet masters to walk the puppets up and down not just side ways. 

As you can see here it had multiple layers.

an important piece of info

This is a traditional Christmas decoration, that would start to rotate when the candles were lit.

As I said earlier, moving objects were quite revolutionary. 

This one had the child rotate the handle which made a monkey go up and down.

This bear was to copy the real life bears which were forced to entertain back then.

These later moving toys replicate the fastest moving cars of the time.

These monkeys can play 8 different tunes. Back when they were made these would have cost a lot, even among the rich.

This is a man who rides a pig.

The entire collection.

A multiple-scene puppet show.

quite amazing if you ask me.

 They have collections of everything. The entire top floor was devoted to clothing dress up and doll houses. Some of the doll houses were bigger than me.

This collection is quite exceptional if you ask me. I hope you enjoyed this as much as I did.

Have a great day!