Fireman Toys Next on Agenda
By Taylor Owen
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — “Toot Toot, Beep Beep: Toys that Move,” a collaborative exhibit between Brooklyn’s New York City Transit Museum and The New York Doll and Toy Museum, will come to a close Sept. 16.
The most recent in the Doll and Toy Museum’s series of traveling exhibits documented over 70 years worth of transit-related toys.
“Toot Toot” shows not only the evolution of toys, but the evolution of locomotion in the city and the nation. One of the oldest toys in the exhibition is a cast-iron horse cab from 1885, representing a method of transportation later replaced by buses. Also there at the Transit Museum is a cast-iron sight-seeing bus model from 1920; both toys are from the Jack Herbert collection.
The Doll and Toy Museum’s founder, Marlene Hochman, told the Eagle that the museum is now working with the New York Fire Museum and will hopefully have a firefighting-toy exhibition open to the public later this fall.
Hochman founded her museum after she created the “Barbie Chess Set” from which, according to the museum’s web site, her “idea for an entire educational doll and toy museum was born.”
The Bay Ridge Public Library hosted the previous Doll and Toy Museum exhibit called “Fun at the Farm,” which displayed historical farming related toys. The Brooklyn Heights library branch was host to an exhibition of 19th and 20th century toys before that.
The museum started out in an elementary school classroom in Carroll Gardens, but now has a collection of more than 5,000 toys and dolls and has produced numerous exhibits across the city.
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