The Bakelite Museum

23/10/2025

Dog meets dog at the Bakelite Museum in storage.

19/10/2025

Thank you for all the kind and enthusiastic comments about the Colvestone School proposal - and thank you for telling us the link didn't work. Here again is the link to the website for the whole project: https://www.colvestone.org/, where there is a Contact page. The link to the supporters' page is https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6eO0-gmtRFW7fDfwqI2fmJv64DQPIAU1SOZm3MFd2Uvx5JQ/viewform. Please do sign up - and share this post! The Expression of Interest has now been submitted to Hackney Council's estate agent, and the more support they can see for the idea the better.
Thank you!

16/10/2025

# # NEWSFLASH!! POSSIBILITY OF NEW PREMISES!! # #
The search may finally be over, and the possible solution would mean the Bakelite Museum returning to London, where it began. In fact, it would be going to Hackney, where plastics first began before Bakelite was invented. Colvestone Primary School in Dalston has been closed owing to falling pupil numbers, and a consortium of arts organisations, headed by the Dalston Trust, is proposing to bring this fine Victorian building back into use by opening it as a creative and cultural centre. It will include artists' studios, music training and performance, puppetry, pottery and two fabulous museums. We at the Bakelite Museum are pleased and proud to be working with Pollocks Toy Museum, another wonderful, entertaining and longstanding collection that has also been looking for new premises for some time. Hackney Council have put Strettons Estate Agent in charge of finding the next use for Colvestone Primary School, which has been listed as an Asset of Community Value, and we are submitting an Expression of Interest in October.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Please go to https://colvestone.org/, where you can see information about all the participants and a film about the proposals, and leave a comment at the end of the website, or go directly to the supporters' page at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd6e00-gmtRFW7fDfwql2fmJv64DQPIAU1SOZm3MFd2Uvx5JQ/viewform. Thank you!
Pollock's Toy Museum primary school plastics

21/12/2024

Bakelite TV12 A walk in the Park 1977

28/10/2024

It's Animation Day! Take another trip to Bakelite Fantastic, our delightful plastic animation created by Rich Webber ( on Instagram) and Richard Webber, with some minor assistance from Patrick Cook and Imogen Smith. It's top of our Featured Posts section.

17/10/2024

Drat! Eventbrite isn't working after all. But it's fine to pay at the door. Do let us know if you're coming to Plastic Fantastic this weekend.

16/10/2024

10/10/2024

It's World Porridge Day! What a comfort. Join us at our event, Open Weekend on 19th - 20th October for , , a bowl of porridge and a nice hot cuppa.