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New Exhibits: Tin Toy Story and Tin Things
October 19, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 4:00 pm

Join us in the wonderful world of toys for our new “Tin Toy Story” exhibit, opening October 19. “Tin Toy Story” features an eye-popping collection of over 100 toys from toymaker and collector Jack Schylling. Jack founded Schylling Toys and Gifts in Rowley, MA over forty years ago. As the creative force behind many of the company’s products, Jack was especially inspired by the mechanical toys from the “golden age” of toys, the 1930s-1970s. Jack has collected – and continues to collect – literally thousands of toys, and has designed hundreds more. This exhibition focuses on the tin toys from Jack’s collection of vintage and antique toys and those made by Schylling Toys and Gifts.
An adjunct exhibit to “Tin Toy Story” is “Tin Things.” Also opening October 19, “Tin Things” features tin artifacts from Wenham Museum’s own collection. This exhibit explores the history of tin and how it’s been used to make everything from ancient Greek sculptures to food wrapping for the past 3000 years.
As always, there will be plenty of hands-on components in the galleries, including many toys in the gallery available for play and samples of metal ingots made from tin, aluminum, bronze, etc. that visitors are invited to touch. Metal is used to make all sorts of things – come discover what’s so disTINctive about tin!
Learn more about Toymaker Jack Schylling and Schylling Toys and Gifts in this short introductory film from The Toymaker, a documentary film produced by Matt Siegel.
Jack Schylling Photo and Video Credit: ©Matthew J. Siegel/Imageworks-LA