Pollock’s Toy Museum Croydon 2025

Pollock’s Toy Museum in Croydon is open every Saturday 11.00am-4.00pm. Free.

​Unit 49, Whitgift Centre Croydon, CR0 1UQ (map)
(Centre Car Park: CR9 1AT)

​Pollock’s Toy Museum has taken up residence in Croydon with a mini-museum packed with theatres, toys, games and dolls.

Listen to the Victorian Polyphon, buy unique Pollock papers, theatres, cards and toys in the museum shop; hear stories about the toys and chat with the museum team about your toy memories.

There will be toy theatre performances or children’s activities most weeks, subject to volunteer availability. Find out more about volunteering.

Upcoming Live Toy Theatre Performances on Saturdays at 12 noon and 2pm

  • Sat 11 October: Aladdin, performed by David Powell
  • Sat 18 October: Dick Whittington, performed by David Powell

Current exhibition

Blocks, rods, bricks and fiddly bits, our exhibition focusing on architectural construction toys, continues until the end of October. Our next exhibition, Whizz, jump, spin, flutter and fly will focus on dynamic toys.

Family activities

  • Try your hand at rebuilding Croydon with vintage toy building blocks! (Until end October)
  • Board games for all ages on weeks when there are no performances

Accessibility

The Whitgift Shopping Centre and the museum unit have level access and there is space for wheelchairs to enter, navigate through the displays and into the activity area. Visitor toilets are available outside the museum in the shopping centre.

Entry, performances and family workshops are free but donations to save the collection are welcome.