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Welcome to Brighton Toy and Model Museum's prototype Wiki! This Wiki system is intended to act as a general-purpose public resource and repository for background information on the Museum's exhibits. Although it uses the same software that powers Wikipedia, editing is currently reserved for Museum staff and invitees only. For now, it currently only deals with a very small part of the Museum's collection. Feel free to explore!

Entries so far Inside the Museum Display areas - displays and display areas listed by number Museum exhibits - the first ~700 individual display items to be listed (February 2013) Special selections Frank Hornby 150th Anniversary - to commemorate the 150th anniversary of British toymaker icon Frank Hornby, we'll be radically expanding the sections of the wiki KnowledgeBank that deal with Hornby, Dinky and Meccano. This work will be proceding over 2013 with the help of a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The grant is also paying for a full-time Project Officer, a coordination website for 2013 events, new public IT for the Museum, and various other nice things. Details to follow as more of the grant-funded features come online. Director's Choice - Exhibits and displays selected by the Director, Chris Littledale, as having special significance. Events Frank Hornby Week - 11th May, and 14-19th May 2013. Past exhibitions Coronation Scot - our exhibition on Britain's streamlined, speed-striped Art Deco bullet-train. This was the world's fastest train in 1937, and its luxuriously opulent red-and-gold 1939 version was (literally) the final word in high-speed luxury, representing the peak of Britain's Golden Age of Steam before WW2 ended high-speed luxury travel on the country's rail network. Outside the Museum Brighton - Pages about relevant Brighton-related subjects. updates, additions, users

Editing tools "Stub" pages (view): A "stub" page is a wikipage with very little information that needs expansion. All Pages (view): Most pages are for Museum exhibits, but there are also pages for some major manufacturers, for some of the original objects that have been modelled, and for other subjects that relate to the Museum and/or its exhibits. The amount of information per page, and the total number of pages, are both expected to grow. All Categories (view): At the bottom of each page is an optional list of categories that apply to the page. A page can have multiple category tags. The Wiki software automatically creates and updates page indexes for each individual category tag.

Other online resources

• The Museum's main website is at http://www.brightontoymuseum.co.uk/
• The Museum's Twitter account is at http://twitter.com/thetoymuseum/
• The Museum's wiki is here, at http://www.brightontoymuseum.co.uk/wiki/
• The Museum's news blog is at http://brightontoyandmodelmuseum.blogspot.com/
• The Museum's YouTube videos are at http://www.youtube.com/user/brightontoymuseum/