Museum of childhood

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

A poster for the V&A's Museum of Childhood, featured on 6ft by 4ft billboards around East London

The V&A Museum of Childhood is closing for a £13 million transformation. It will reimagine its collections, buildings and public programmes to become a world-class centre of creativity for children.

A museum wholly devoted to juvenescence.

YOU unravels how Pollock's Toy Museum survived wartime bombs, has inspired classic literature and, these days, terrifies tourists.

D&AD Awards 2009 Press Advertising Wood Pencil Winner from Abbott Mead Vickers BBDO United Kingdom.

Exhibition. Jul 29–Nov 5, 2012. MoMA’s ambitious survey of 20th century design for children is the first large-scale overview of the modernist preoccupation with children and childhood as a paradigm for progressive design thinking. The exhibition will bring together areas underrepresented in design history and often considered separately, including school architecture, clothing, playgrounds, toys and games, children’s hospitals and safety equipment, nurseries, furniture, and books. In 1900…

Glasgow-based illustrator, animator and all-round creative Lesley Barnes creates great sprawling illustrations that take inspiration from contemporary fashion, mid-century design and every facet of mythological narrative; from the ancient Greeks to The Brothers Grimm. Lesley's got a knack for creating engagingly complex imagery from layered geometric patterns and hand-drawn characters that are brought together with textural finishes, mimicking traditional print techniques. Entirely…

This is a guest post by Minh Le. Minh works in early childhood policy and helped design 826DC‘s Museum of Unnatural History. He writes about children’s

1. Explore the Collection Get the most out of your visit with your children by using our free Family Backpacks and…