The Pollocks Toy Museum in London is named after Benjamin Pollock who was one of the last Victorian toy Theatre printers. The website claims that they house nearly every kind of toy imaginable from all of the world as well as from different time periods. The collection consists of toy theatres, teddy bears, wax and china dolls, board games, optical toys, folk toys, nursery furniture, mechanical toys and doll houses. When I first found this site, I became very excited at the prospect of looking at antique toys, HOWEVER, this online exhibition is severely lacking in everything except web presence. I thought about doing another digital museum but decided to continue writing on the toy museum simply because upon first inspection the site looks AMAZING but the content/information is pitiful and I thought everyone should share in the confusion and disappointment that is The Pollocks Toy Museum online exhibition.

1. There is a link on every page that sends the viewer to the featured toy (of the day? the week? the decade? You really can't tell!). There are only five links to choose from and none of them lead you to any information about when the site was last updated (unless I'm blind and just don't see it) so who knows how long this particular doll/bear combo has been "featured". The selection decisions are probably random or whatever they fell like digitizing and featuring.

2. The only information provided for the ONE digitized object is the history behind the teddy bear as well as what the doll was originally made of. There is not really any more information about the particulars of the two toys apart from the bit at the beginning giving their names and that the doll and bear have never been parted and presumably this is why they are housed together (ok, all together now: AWWWW!)

3.You can't really tell much about the characteristics of the digital object because it appears to be photographed while it was still behind glass and there are no other objects digitized so you can't see where it fits into the collection. The collection site itself is neat, though. It builds your hopes up so they can crash even harder once you realize there isn't much of a collection to be seen.

4. The site did make me want to visit the actual museum. I would say the intended audience is for people wanting to visit the site because it give you a run down of the different museum sections (I thought maybe you could click on each section to view more items but nay) and plenty of information about how to get to the museum.

Overall, the site was extremely disappointing (unless I'm missing something, am I missing a link somewhere, I clicked all over the place thinking maybe the collection was hidden and I had to find it) but it did really peak my interest into the museum which I suppose was their goal. So, anyone up for a field trip to the Pollock's Toy Museum? C'mon, London isn't THAT far.