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Glasgow Museum’s Scotland Street School Museum Exhibits Toy Stories

GLASGOW.- An exhibition of some of the best loved toys in Britain over the past 100 years is open at Scotland Street School museum. Toy Stories relives many of the crazes and must-have toys and games over the 20th century and features everything from puzzles, action figures and board games. The exhibition looks at popular toys over the decades, including vintage toys like iconic Muffin the Mule, and also has a focus on Toy Crazes – from Yo-Yos and Slinkys right through to My Little Pony and the Rubik’s Cube. The exhibition also has a play area where visitors can play with toys, and is accompanied by a range of public events. Toy Stories runs until May 2, 2011 and has an extensive series of events based on the exhibition. On December 11th Scotland Street School hosted a family toys event with free workshops, activities and games and visitors to the exhibition in the run up to Christmas were able to post their letters to Santa in a special Toy Stories post-box. The exhi