The museum has three large rooms.
The entrance room is a gift shop where dolls and toys are sold to help support the museum financially.
The second room is filled with donated and loaned displays of antique and collectible dolls and toys.
The museum has three large rooms.
The
entrance room is a gift shop where dolls and toys are sold to help support the
museum financially.
The second room is filled with donated and loaned displays
of antique and collectible dolls and toys.
The third room houses the “Story
Lady’s” precious storybook-character dolls.
The collection lines the
walls and
the center of the room has tables and chairs
that are used for special parties,
meetings, and events.
The third room also houses a very unique mechanical, musical,
merry-go-round of
wood-carved dancing couples.
A local carver, Andrew Hearth, made this display in
the 1930’s.
For many years, he took it to county fairs, charging people
ten
cents to see the dancing dolls.”
This display continues to amuse many visitors.
The museum has many other donated collections.
One collection of ethnic dolls is
from Lenore Peters, a local,
retired schoolteacher
who received the dolls from
students
who purchased them for her during their travels.
Another collection of
about 170 dolls, received in 1999 from the estate of
Vivian John of
Rye, New
York, includes antique bisque dolls and collectible
cloth and wooden dolls from
England, Norway, Italy, Russia, Palestine, and other countries.
Other displays include the following:
· German bisque, china, parian, celluloid, and tin-head dolls
· Bye-Lo Baby in an antique wicker buggy
· Sweets doll by early 20th century illustrator Maud Tousey Fangle
· Famlee doll with four interchangeable heads
· Early Kathe Kruse doll
· Antique buggies
· Vintage furniture to complement the displays
· Composition baby dolls from the 1930’s
· Patty Playpal, Betsy McCall, Toni, Ginny, Terri Lee, and Chatty Cathy dolls
from the 1950’s and 60’s
· Vinyl Fisher Price My Friend dolls and Tomy’s Kimberly dolls from the 1980’s
· Princess Diana dolls
· Jackie Kennedy dolls
· Effanbee famous people dolls
· Emma Clear’s George and Martha Washington dolls
· Lewis Sorenson wax lady doll
· Dolls by Minnesota doll artists Faith Wick and Annie Wahl
· Harry Potter dolls
· Vintage toy and truck displays that change periodically
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