Honorees include Mary Ellroy, nationally acclaimed toy inventor and Inductee into our Toy Inventors Hall of Fame.  Before becoming an award-winning inventor of Toys, Mary Ellroy received her MBA from the Boston College School of Management. Her creativity brought her much success in the advertising and media fields, which then inspired her to invent toys and games.  She is currently the President of the Inventors Association of Connecticut.  http://www.gamebird.biz/affiliations.htm

Nancy Morgan, is another Honoree and will be acknowledged for her generous donation  of dolls to the Museum’s toy collection. Born and raised in Brooklyn Heights, Nancy enjoyed  a childhood filled with dolls. Nancy received her first doll from her mother, an original Raggedy Ann in 1938, and has continued to amass an impressive collection ever since.  In the 1950s Nancy began traveling all over the world and began collecting dolls from a variety of nations in their native costumes. Today, Nancy continues to enjoy traveling as well as volunteering.

Community Service Awards, The Gift of Giving: Toy Drives will be awarded to three organizations for their generous and successful Toy Drives benefitting disadvantaged children in our community. These include The Today Show Charitable Foundation, The Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association and the Children of the City.

To make a charitable contribution to the Ninth Anniversary Celebration, donations can be send to The Doll and Toy Museum of NYC, 157 Montague Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. Your contribution is a tax deduction.

To attend the event, guest tickets are $50

$125 for Supporters

$250 for Benefactors

This educational program takes place in the schools and enable students to learn the process of toy invention from original idea to finished project.  The Toy Invention Program is in its third successful year.

The program is supported in part from the generous support of Con Edison, Independence Community Foundation, NY State Education Department, NYC Department of Youth and Community Development and NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

Photo: Honoree Benjamin Kinberg (left) and NY State Senator Marty Connor.

We observed our 8th Anniversary Celebration on May 23, 2007 at the New York Transit Museum, in downtown Brooklyn. It was a wonderful event with over 100 people in attendance.

The museum honored Benjamin Kinberg as the very first inductee into our Toy Inventors Hall of Fame. Mr. Kinberg’s career spans three decades of creating and designing toys for all the major toy companies, including Mattel and Hasbro. A James Bond movie sparked the idea of an attaché case filled with all the gadgets a junior spy needs; it turned out to be an outstanding success and was the first of more than 400 licensed inventions.

A small miniature display of a family library.

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The Doll and Toy Museum of New York City held the 5th Annual Toy Expo And Cultural Festival on Saturday, Feb. 11, 2006, from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. The show  featured hundreds of one-of-a-kind and limited edition dolls and teddy bears for sale. The event was held at the Social Hall of the Ethical Cultural Society at 2 West 64th Street in New York, across the street from Central Park and conveniently located near Lincoln Center.

Calling all 4th-12th grade students! The Doll and Toy Museum of NYC is hosting a Toy Invention Fair. Inventing a toy involves strategic thinking, creativity & can be an exciting project for students or an entire class. First prize is $100 cash plus a special surprise, 2nd and 3rd place winners will receive board games & other prizes.

Entering the contest is Free! All entries must be postmarked by December 15, 2005. Entry must include at the top of an 8 􀀁” x 11” piece of paper: your name, address, grade, teacher’s name, school address & telephone number. Next, include the name of your toy and its dimensions (height and width), a 250 word description of the toy, how it might work if it were made into a real toy and what age child would play with it. On another piece of paper, attach a drawing, sketch or photograph. One entry per person or class!

Finalists will be formally contacted by mid-January. At the time of notification, the student inventors will be given 3 weeks to prepare a visual table top display of their idea along with a sample of their toy invention for display at the Fair. Toy inventions can be made using clay, paper, cardboard, or any other safe materials.

The Fair will take place in conjunction with the Doll and Toy Museum’s Doll, Teddy Bear and Toy Show and Sale and held on Feb. 11, 2006, Saturday, in the social hall of the Ethical Cultural Society, 2 West 64th Street, NYC. The show and fair will be open to the public, from 10am-4pm. Suggested admission is $5 for adults and $2 for children. Cash & Prizes will be awarded the day of the event. Judges will include leaders from the Toy Industry and the show will be held the day before the American International Toy Fair which takes place annually in NYC at the Jacob Javits Convention Center. American International TOY FAIR Mail entries by Dec. 15, 2005 to: Doll and Toy Museum of NYC, 157 Montague Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. The museum, est. 1999, is a not for profit educational museum with traveling satellite exhibits throughout the city including exhibits at the South Street Seaport Museum & Brooklyn Heights Public Library.