Shop & Doll Museum

• Doll museum admission is $4 per person for a self-guided tour. Members are free. 

• Hours: Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 1-4 pm; Saturday from 10 am-2 pm

• For group tours including Girl Scouts or other children’s tours, or to book a tour for Society members, please call or email the Society.

• Interested in donating a doll or other item to our Museum Collection? Fill out this Google Form and someone will be in touch.

Video Courstesy of WOSU’s “Broad and High”

The museum features a distinguished collection of 19th and 20th century dolls.

• Parian bisques: The fine unglazed china bisque heads of these dolls resemble Grecian parian marble. The molded heads have elaborate hairdos, usually blonde and are often decorated with bows, flowers and neck frills.

• French fashion models: These beautiful dolls have real hair wigs, elaborate costumes and all the accessories a lady of the late 1800’s might desire.

• Milliner’s models: These slender French dolls model fashions sent as miniature examples to England and America to show the latest fashions.

• French bebes: “Juvenile” dolls such as a French bebe by Jumeau, Armand Marseilles or Charles Marsh reflect the recognition of childhood and its own fashions and toys.

• Portrait dolls: An assortment of the famous, including the fashion setting Empress Eugenie of France (wife of Emperor Napolean III), Countess Dagmar of Denmark (married to Czar Alexander III), French artist Rosa Bonheur and Alice in Wonderland

• American dolls: Our diverse collection includes a doll with a papier mache head and a homemade body by Ludwig Greiner, a Joel Ellis doll made in 1873 from rock maple, jointed, with pewter hands and feet and an excellent example of a doll by Izannah Walker with its adorable painted fabric face and original clothing.

• We also have dolls as small as 1” tall, dolls made with rubber, wood, wax and even a doll made from a wishbone.