American Toy Marble Museum

American toy marble museum.

American toy marble museum.

140 likes 1 talking about this. American toy marble museum lock 3 park downtown akron ohio home museum info tourney history research history marble terms photo gallery arts games online games contact. America s oldest figurine of a santa the original blue santa pictured here was found at lock 3 park in akron ohio during an archeological dig by the american toy marble museum. In order to keep the engineering arts and games of american marbles alive the museum promotes quality playtime activities for children of all ages.

American toy marble museum most of the below jugs pots boots and other miniature items might be difficult to recognize as toys today but childhood has changed remarkably in the past 120 years in part due to the mass production of children s products including toys. Oh and the blue santa found in an archeological dig on the site. The american toy marble museum preserves and disseminates through multimedia exhibitions and displays the history of the american toy industry in the city where it all started. This is the facebook site of the american toy marble museum in akron ohio.

In the mid 1890s. The american toy marble museum is a small history museum that focuses on marbles. It was manufactured on the site by the american marble toy manufacturing co. The machine production of marbles was apparently invented in akron.

The american toy marble museum is a chartered non profit organization of ohio but it does not compete for non profit foundation grants.