The Strong National Museum of Play
Rochester, New York, USA
Home to the world’s most comprehensive collection of toys, dolls and games — including fine Bru and Jumeau bisque dolls — and to the National Toy Hall of Fame.
Visit website → See them in person
Museums & Collections
The best way to understand dolls is to stand in front of them. These institutions preserve and display dolls from antiquity to the present — most with rich online collections you can explore from anywhere.
Young V&A (formerly the V&A Museum of Childhood)
Bethnal Green, London, UK
Part of the Victoria & Albert Museum, holding one of the world’s most important collections of childhood objects, dolls and dolls’ houses.
Visit website →Victoria & Albert Museum — Dolls’ Houses
London, UK
The V&A’s celebrated collection spans dolls’ houses from the 17th-century Nuremberg house onward — arguably the finest such collection anywhere.
Visit website →Sergiev Posad Museum of Toys
Sergiev Posad, Russia
In the historic heart of Russian toy-making, and keeper of the Japanese Fukuruma figure long linked to the birth of the matryoshka.
Visit website →Yokohama Doll Museum
Yokohama, Japan
Thousands of dolls from Japan and around the world, tracing both traditional ningyō and international traditions.
Visit website →Museo Nacional del Títere / regional doll museums
Worldwide
Dozens of national and regional toy and doll museums exist across Europe, the Americas and Asia — a Wikipedia overview is a good starting point for finding one near you.
Visit website → Go further
Societies & further reading
United Federation of Doll Clubs (UFDC)
The major membership body for doll collectors, with conventions, education and a doll museum.
Learn more →The National Toy Hall of Fame
Honours the toys — several of them dolls — that have shaped play across generations.
Learn more →Links lead to third-party websites we consider reputable; Putul.in is not affiliated with these institutions, and details such as opening hours should be confirmed on their own sites. New to the vocabulary of doll collecting? See our Glossary of Doll Terms.