Brighton Toy and Model Museum Brighton Toy and Model Museum Brighton Toy and Model Museum (sometimes referred to as Brighton Toy Museum) is an independent toy museum situated in Brighton, East Sussex (registered charity no. 1001560). Its collection focuses on toys and models produced in the UK and Europe up until the mid-Twentieth Century, and occupies four thousand square feet of floor space within four of the early Victorian arches supporting the forecourt of Brighton railway station. Founded in 1991, the museum holds over ten thousand toys and models, including model train collections, puppets, Corgi, Dinky, Budgie Toys,construction toys and radio-controlled aircraft. The display area
Toccata for Toy Trains models. Eames says the modern era has lost the art of toymaking in the attempt to have "a perfect little copy of the real thing". Toccata for Toy Trains Toccata for Toy Trains is a 1957 short film by Charles and Ray Eames, one of several films (including "Powers of Ten", made many years later) the husband-and-wife design team made during their career. "Toccata for Toy Trains" is also the title of the instrumental music composed for the film by Elmer Bernstein, a frequent collaborator on the Eames films. The film features mostly antique toy trains moving within fanciful settings