Pollock’s Toy Museum Croydon 2025

A group of vintage toys, some from China, appear against a red background. They include a mechanical drummer boy, a wind-up acrobat on a horse, a simple boy doll in a green outfit, and a gymnast suspended from a bar.

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

Sleeping Beauty and Fairy Queen toy theatre characters
  • Saturday 22 November, Sleeping Beauty, performed by Alan Powers and David Powell at 12 and 2pm
  • Family activities on weeks when there are no performances; for example make a moving toy workshops during the autumn Whizz, jump… exhibition

Current exhibition

Our autumn exhibition, Whizz, jump, spin, hoot, flutter and fly, opened on Saturday 8 November and focuses on dynamic toys.

Family activities

  • Make a moving toy (from 8 November, alongside the Whizz, jump… exhibition)

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.