The Detroit Historical Museums offer a wide range of exhibits and collections. At the Museum, visitors walk through time in The Streets of Old Detroit with shops from the 1840s, 1870s and 1900s. They can glimpse the city’s role in the Underground Railroad in the Doorway to Freedom exhibit. Children and adults alike delight in The Glancy Trains toy train exhibit, where they can blow whistles, lower crossing gates, and get an engineer’s eye view from a TV camera mounted in one of the engines. The Museum also hosts a number of traveling and temporary exhibits.

The toy collection encompasses over 5,000 objects. Strengths include mechanical toys, dolls, doll houses and their funishings, toy cars, wagons, bicycles, toy trains, and banks. Mechanical toys, which make up a substantial portion of our collection, are represented here in video segments.

This online exhibit is being built in part by interns invovled in the "Recruiting and Educating 21st Century Library" project.

We hope you find this collection both useful and entertaining!

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