How to Navigate the Museum

After reading the tips below, you can return to your previous screen by using the "Back" button on your browser.

This site is designed to allow you to experience the museum in a number of different ways. For instance, you can take a leisurely stroll from the main hall to one of it's walls of Exhibit Cases, then move from Exhibit to Exhibit. You can also search for an item by name or company name using the Toy Index. Using the Index, you can also search for groups of toys, such as all Kellogg's items, or all items in a particular Exhibit (c1 - c11), or all items with the word "sprout" in the name.

If you navigate through the Exhibit Cases using Netscape 2.0 or newer, or a browser that supports frames, you will see two frames on your screen, an upper frame and a lower frame. The lower frame contains everything you need to navigate between Exhibits, to view the items in that Exhibit, to move back out to the that wall of the Museum, to search for an item using the Toy Index, or to go to the Museum Map. This lower frame can be re-sized by placing your pointer on the dividing line between frames and dr agging it up or down. This lower frame is great if you have a slower connection with the Internet, or if it's just being a bad traffic day. You can simply scroll through the list of toys in the cabinet and see each one displayed in the upper frame. If you have a good speedy connection, it may be more fun just to click on the toys in the Exhibits, then return to the case again to select another one.

Here's a great tip for navigating any site with frames: you can usually go "Back in Frame" to move back to the previous page in a particular frame (such as our top frame). This control is availabe by holding down your mouse button inside the frame and selecting it. On a page using frames, the "Back" button on your browser may not take you where you thought it would!

For those of you that have black and white screens, the items have been optimized for a "bitmap" view, and we have provided a hands-on description of the colors of most toys at the end of the item history. If you have a normal 8-bit display, you will see a slightly bit-mapped version that realistically conveys the item colors. And the pictures look truly stellar on 16 or 24 bit displays... almost three dimensional. We even have some JAVA applets on certian toy pages to deliver sound (depending on your br owser and network connection, you may need to load these pages a second time to hear the entire sound).

Be sure to visit the Museum Map. From the map you can get to pages not available anywhere else on the site. For instance, you can read about the manequin security guard, Earl, and our 8-foot Jolly Green Giant. More incredible features will be available fr om the Map in the future, so be sure to check there when you return to the Museum. We will have contests in our Game Room where you can actually win an advertising icon toy, and we even have future plans to add another Museum Building to offer some truly unique features.

Oh- and don't forget to sign our GuestBook! We want your comments, suggestions, even reminiscent stories! And, if you want to get announcements about new features or additions to the collection, please drop us some email saying so! Here's our address: info@creatability.com. Certainly, if you have any information about items in the Museum that we don't, or if you would like to donate an item to the Museum, feel free to contact us by email or phone (305-663-7374 ).

Please enjoy your visit! If you want to read more about the Museum and about collecting Advertising Icon Toys, visit our Collector's Corner from the Museum Map.