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The creepier the better! Send us your #MuseumDoll discoveries
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#OFMDollsSummer - Museum

Throwback to Izzy visiting the Wydah Museum to say hi to his old friend Sam Bellamy!
10cm Izzy doll by rights staring at the real bell from the real Sam Bellamy’s ship the Wydah at the Wydah museum. 10cm Izzy doll by rights staring at a replica of Sam Bellamy’s ship the Wydah at the Wydah museum. 10cm Izzy doll by rights staring at the real anchor from the real Sam Bellamy’s ship the Wydah at the Wydah museum.
August 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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I'm a day late, but here's @imrights.bsky.social Izzy visiting The Real Pirates Museum in Salem MA. He felt the canon was not in proper working order, but he enjoyed the exhibit where you could get your "Hands" on some real pirate treasure! #OFMDollsSummer
Izzy doll propped up on the side of a canon from the Whydah on display at The Real Pirates Museum Izzy doll next to a sign that says "Get your hands on some real pirate treasure" (an exhibit where you can touch coins recovered from the Whydah) at The Real Pirates Museum. Izzy doll admiring two cases of "pirate treasure" (coins) recovered from the Whydah, on display at The Real Pirates Museum. Izzy doll on top of a case used for storing coins, on display at The Real Pirates Museum.
August 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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lovedhands.bsky.social
#OFMDollsSummer Museum
Doubles as a bring your doll to work day for me!
Stede in the jaws of a torvosaurus skeleton (do not do this in museums where you do not work)
August 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Currently listening to Toby Tarrant on @radiox.co.uk who would like something named after him...

Probably not what you and Dominic Byrne had in mind but we could name our 1960s toilet roll dolls after you.
Display of three vintage toilet roll dolls from the 1960s, each dressed in elaborate handmade gowns designed to conceal a roll of toilet paper beneath the skirt. The left doll wears a pink dress with brown lace trim, the middle doll is in a green satin gown with purple lace and matching bonnet, and the right doll wears a white ruffled dress. A museum plaque in front of the dolls reads: “Toilet Roll Dolls, 1960s. During the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, toilet roll was a precious commodity due to panic-buying.” The dolls are lit dramatically against a dark background.
August 28, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Saw this doll at York Castle Museum and now you’ve seen it too I’m so sorry
August 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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popnpizza.bsky.social
Went to a toy museum today - I’ll post more pics later - but this one really spoke to me.
ALF and some spooky doll
August 30, 2025 at 3:35 AM
museumdolls.bsky.social
Happy 150th birthday Weston Park Museum @sheffieldmuseums.bsky.social

I hope your amazing collection of dolls are invited to the party! #MuseumDolls
A selection of dolls in a museum display case.
September 6, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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meaniemary.bsky.social
Exceptionally creepy clown doll for @pineylonesome.bsky.social from Saturday's museum excursion! (More palatable finds to follow for you art fiends.)
February 9, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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I helped a friend out and volunteered at the Poway heritage museum last night during the Christmas in the Park event. As we were closing up, the docent asks me to make sure no one’s lurking in the back room and let me tell you how the blood drained from my face when I saw this in the dark
A storage room filled with boxes but around the corner is a headless mannequin with a lifelike baby doll on its lap
December 14, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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heatherrandell.bsky.social
Took my son to the Russian nesting doll exhibit at the Museum of Russian Art in South Minneapolis. They have about 1,000 sets. Highly recommend!
Russian nesting dolls from Siberia. Multiple sets of Russian nesting dolls. Winter themed Russian nesting dolls. My son playing with some Russian nesting dolls.
November 30, 2024 at 8:26 PM
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david-soulscorch.bsky.social
There's no such thing as Voodoo Dolls
But
Poppets, dolls made to represent someone for the purpose of casting imitative or sympathetic magic, are very real.
Here's four of my favourites from a recent visit to Boscastle's "Museum of Witchcraft and Magic"
A poppet doll with blond hair. Her feet and hands are bound tight and two large pins are pierced through the heart A knitted poppet from the second world war era representing an unpopular, bullying Sargent hanging with a noose around her neck A poppet dressed in an old-fashioned nurse outfit with a nail through her stomach, believed to have been made to abort an unwanted pregnancy A poppet made wearing a dress and apron with string hair and inked on face. Pins are stuck through the neck and into the heart. The small sign below reads "An ill wishing figure made an invalid wife to break the suspected associations between her husband and housekeeper"
October 22, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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Barbie doll heads at Museum of Arts and Design.
December 4, 2024 at 7:43 PM
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violetsmith.bsky.social
I couldn't find the bone doll (exactly what it sounds like), which previously held the title of creepiest thing in the museum, so I'll finish with this... object.
A severed doll head dressed like a demon, surrounded by a puddle of red felt. I'm going to vote for her in the next election.
June 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
Yesterday I went to the Stockholm Toy Museum and ohhhh boy it is full of definitely demonically-possessed entities and I loved every square foot of the place. These are just a tiny fraction of the photos I took there.
A metal toy which appears to be a two-wheeled ATOM ROCKET mounted by a twerking wide-eyed nightmare clown who is one hundred percent trying to bang the rocket. Behind him, a human faced robot stares with dead eyes. It’s JOCKO THE DRINKING MONKEY, an alcoholic monkey toy with a top hat and jaunty coat. He’s drinking and it’s funny! Probably! Until it’s a holiday and he’s telling you all the horrible things he’s done! The toy is metal. Mostly. Man I don’t know. It’s a doll, unclothed. Maybe porcelain or part plastic — I’ve no idea. It is likely a girl doll? It has dead black eyes and a mop of hair and a peachy little bow and it is standing in front of a poster of an anatomical skeleton while also holding in her hand a… limb from another smaller toy?? This round-faced doll in a white frock and with long blonde hair has a face like Winston Churchill and is making a face like she’s trying very hard to either a) poop or b) not poop.
July 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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*searches Barnsley Museums*

Good morning Jackie (Weaver) and Dead Eye Dave #MuseumDolls

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A seated doll with long blonde hair wears a bright pink and orange striped dress and black strappy shoes, posed against a gray background. A doll dressed in a vibrant orange outfit with a matching hat and white pom-pom, holding a small white handbag, sits on a neutral background.
July 23, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Hello Bluesky! Seen any #MuseumDolls recently? Then get in touch!

Starting this account with Lola from Bankfield House Museum in Halifax.

👀 Mexican Muñeca de Carton Doll named Lola, Made in Celeya
Two dolls in a display case, the first one is wearing a yellow dress and has a pony tails. The second has a red dress with the name Lola on the front.
July 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM