Pollock’s Toy Museum Croydon 2024 – 2025

Open every Saturday 11-4pm. Free. Pollock’s Toy Museum Croydon will be closed Saturday 28 December 2024 and Saturday 4 January. The museum will be open as usual from Saturday 11 January 2025.

​Unit 49 Whitgift Centre Croydon, (map)

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

The current exhibition is The Walnut Fair Reimagined with Toys! and there will be an additional exhibition celebrating board games in the new year.

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 Toy Theatre Performances at 12 noon and 2pm on Saturdays

• 11 January: live show at 12 and 2

Accessibity

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.

Nut Allergy Warning

The Walnut Fair exhibition (5 October – 21 December) includes items made of walnuts. Workshops may include touching walnut shells. Visiting the museum during this time may not be suitable for anyone with a nut allergy.

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