Wizard's Attic Toy Gallery

Part of the toy collection is the registered charity the National Toy Museum and Institute of Play Collection that dates back to the 1950s. In 1959 it was lent to the Brighton Corporation to be shown at Rottingdean Grange as an ongoing exhibition arranged by one of the trustees of the collection. In 1970 the charity offered the collection to the Corporation on the understanding that it would be redisplayed in Northgate House next to Brighton Museum. Unfortunately the plans for this had to be abandoned, but it allowed the collection to be amalgamated with the toy collection already held by Brighton Museum.

It was not until the redevelopment of the galleries at Hove Museum in 2003 that the collections were put on display together in the Wizards Attic toy gallery - many had never been on display at all. The collection on display is still only a small section of the whole collection.