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ARIZONA---
Phoenix,
AZ
Phoenix Art Museum
holds 20 Thorne Rooms. Created by Narcissa
Niblack Thorne, these magnificent 1:12
scale miniature rooms are exact replicas
of historic interiors in the United States and
Europe.
ARKANSAS---
The Miniature Museum of Merritt--
Tiny Town Tours
Mountain Home, AR
This museum
offers five rooms of dollhouses and dollhouse miniatures
from the personal collection of Ms. Merritt.
Santa Monica, CA
Seven miniatures galleries in a restored
Queen Anne Victorian Mansion.
Mott's Miniatures Doll House Shop
Fullerton, CA
Established in 1949, the Motts
Miniatures and Dollhouse Shop is located just a few
minutes drive from Disneyland. In addition to being a
shop, Mott's features the world's largest doll house
showroom... 4,000 square feet.
Palm Springs, CA
The Leo S. Singer
Miniature Room Collection at the Palm
Springs Art Museum consists of twelve
miniature interiors that depict the theme of
laundry, a subject with special significance
for Mr. Singer. He was one of the founders
and president of Miracle White Company,
manufacturers of Miracle White laundry
detergents.
The idea for these miniature rooms
originated after Mr. Singer took a trip
around the world in 1967. He decided
to have a series of miniature rooms created
to show the place laundry played in people's
lives in different times and in different
countries. Mr. Singer commissioned Eugene J.
Kupjack to create the rooms. Considered the
"dean of American miniaturists," Mr. Kupjack
is regarded as the foremost artist in his
field.
CANADA---
Mildred Mahoney Silver Jubilee Dollhouse
Museum
Fort Erie, ON
905-871-5833
Colorado Springs, CO
Magic Town is a full city in 1/6
scale. The town was created by famous sculpture Michael
Garman.
The Denver Museum features a collection of dolls,
toys and miniatures ranging from the 16th century to
modern times.
DELAWARE---
Wilmington, DE
The Delaware collection holds over 100
dollhouses, miniatures, dolls, toys, trains, boats, and
planes from the 18th to 20th centuries.
FLORIDA---
Naples, FL
This museum features
regular exhibits that showcase work from the Carole and
Barry Kaye collection. Called "a revelation" by the New
York Times, the museum collection features The Pistner House, a
1750's-style French townhouse.
Sarasota, FL
The Ringling Museum offers the
world’s largest miniature circus, impressive in
scale and expansive in scope. The
¾-inch-to-the-foot scale replica of Ringling
Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus was built
by the legendary Howard C. Tibbals. The
circus is complete with eight main tents, 152
wagons, 1,300 circus performers and workers,
more than 800 animals and a 55-car train.
Chicago, IL
The Art Institute of Chicago holds the
largest collection of 1:12 scale Thorne Rooms.
With 68 in their permanent collection, visitors can view
elements of European interiors from the late 13th
century to the 1930s and American furnishings from the
17th century to the 1930s.
Chicago, IL
This magnificent three-story castle stands nearly eight
feet tall and holds numerous rooms including a Chapel, a
Magic Garden, and a Great Hall complete with intricate
systems of electricity and running water.
In 1976 the Castle found a
permanent home at the Chicago Museum of Science
and Industry. The Castle has over 2 million
visitors a year.
INDIANA---
Carmel, IN
Just north of
Indianapolis, the museum offers antique and modern
dollhouses, miniature scenes, hand-crafted miniature
art, and private collections.
IOWA---
South Amana, Iowa
Home to over 200 mini-Americana miniatures by Henry
Moore, the barn Museum features a community of rural
dwellings built on a scale of one inch to one foot.
KENTUCKY---
Kentucky Gateway Museum Center
Maysille,.
Kentucky
Thousands of 1/12 scale miniatures,
each personally collected by
Maysville native, Kaye Browning. The
3,300 square-foot miniatures gallery
features a multitude of
one-of-a-kind homes, room boxes,
vignettes, furniture and
furnishings, dolls and everything
that makes a house a home.
House of Broel
This museum is housed in a Victorian
mansion in the heart of the Garden District.
Antique Toy Museum
(410) 230-0580
Baltimore, MD
This antique store, gallery and museum offers toys from 1800 to
1940. Highlights include over 40 antique dollhouses,
kitchens and shops plus over hundreds of board games,
marionettes and toys of every kind.
Baltimore, MD
The BMA has a number of miniature roomboxes on permanent
display. Dollhouse and interior-design lovers will go wild for
the miniature American and English rooms created by Eugene
Kupjack.
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MISSOURI---
St. Louis, MO
In addition to hosting regular classes and
special exhibits, this collection offers numerous St.
Louis landmarks in miniature as well as a number of
miniatures in a variety of scales.
Kansas City, MO
One of the most impressive miniature
collections in the country, this museum also offers
dolls, dollhouses, trains, cars and more than one
million marbles. Special features include fine
scale miniatures including the gilded Palace of
Versailles and an American Plains Indian tepee.
NEBRASKA---
Lincoln,
NE
Housed at
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
College of Architecture, the Kruger
Collection holds nearly 20,000 1:12
scale miniatures.
Cape May, NJ
Located in the Goodman
House, a restored
Queen Anne style cottage circa 1885,
this museum holds antique and collectible
dollhouses, children's china and glass, miniature
furniture and accessories. The Goodman House is
located a block from the Jersey shore.
Mountain
Lakes, NJ
The
Mountain Lakes Library holds six
miniature rooms by the late Edgar
Craven. Using 1:12 scale, these works
were created after Mr. Craven was
introduced to roomboxes at the 1933
Century of Progress Exhibition in
Chicago.
New York, NY
The Forbes Galleries are a unique treasure trove of
collectibles located in the heart of Greenwich Village.
Tucked within the lobby of the Forbes Magazine’s
headquarters in New York City, the Galleries are open
free to the public and feature antique toy boats, toy
soliders and roomboxes made for Malcom Forbes by Eugene
Kupjack.
New York, NY
The Museum
of the City of New York's Toy Collection
documents the social history of
childhood in New York City, through
everyday patterns of play and the
history of consumption. The collection
contains over 10,000 toys and
amusements. Holdings include the
Stettheimer Doll House of the 1920s, Ann
Anthony's Pavilion (1769); the
Shelton-Taylor house (1835); the Brett
house (1838); the Goelet house (1845);
the Elder house (1865); and Altadena's
house (1895) -- made for and used by
their families for generations.
Queens, NY
The Panorama of the
City of New York is the jewel in the crown of the QMA
collection. Built for the 1964 World’s Fair, this
architectural model includes every single building
constructed before 1992 for a total of 895,000
individual structures.
Rochester, NY
The second largest children’s museum in the nation, the
Margaret Woodbury Strong National Museum of Play® is
home to the National Toy Hall of Fame® and the world’s
largest collection of toys, dolls, and play-related
artifacts.
Yorktown, NY
This permanent exhibit offers miniature houses and rooms
boxes in a variety of scales. The star of the exhibit is
the Marjorie Johnson dollhouse – a lovely house in late
Victorian style filled to the attic with tiny treasures.
The Yorktown Museum also features a fully-operational HO
scale model railroad.
Winston-Salem, NC
Toys in
this museum survey 1700 years dating from 225 A.D. to
1925 A.D. This museum holds dollhouses, trains, board
games, puppets and even airplanes. Many featured toys
are from the Moravians that settled in Salem in the
early 1800s.
PENNSYLVANIA---
Bethlehem, PA
The
Elizabeth Johnston Prime Dollhouse and
Toy Collection is now on permenant
exhibit at the Kemerer Museum. Mrs.
Prime's houses have been researched and
written about in numerous books and
magazines. The collection contains
pieces from the United States, England,
and Germany, dating from the 19th
century.
TENNESSEE---
Knoxville, TN
The Knoxville Museum of Art recently
restored and reinstalled nine Thorne
Rooms.
They were given to the museum in 1962 by
IBM. The KMA's Thorne Room Collection
includes: Early American Kitchen;
Spanish Bedroom, 16th century; Majorcan
Kitchen; Victorian Parlor, c. 1850;
English Dining Room, late 18th century;
New England Bedroom, c. 1770; Spanish
Foyer, 17th century; Federal Dining
Room, c. 1810; American Summer Kitchen,
1885; American Summer Kitchen; and Early
American Kitchen.
In addition
to a wonderful collection of paintings and folk art, the
Shelburne also maintains two intricately hand-carved
wood circuses: the Roy Arnold Circus Parade and the Kirk
Bros. Circus. The Arnold Circus Parade has nearly 4,000
figures and forms a parade over 500 feet long. The Kirk
Bros. Circus is a miniature three-ring circus with
audience comprised of over 35,000 pieces.
VIRGINIA---
Colonial Williamsburg, VA
This museum is currently closed, but will
reopen late 2006 or early 2007.
Winchester, VA
The
R. Lee Taylor Miniatures Gallery is home to a
fascinating collection of furnished miniature houses and
rooms. The Miniatures Gallery has quickly become one of
the most popular museum exhibits.
WISCONSIN---
Baraboo, WI
In addition
to a circus in miniatures, Circus World exhibits include
The Story of the Ringling Brothers, a clown exhibit,
nearly 50 beautifully restored circus wagons, a circus
train exhibit and much more.
House on the Rock
Baltimore, WI
BRITISH COLUMBIA---
Victoria B.C.
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future frontiers of space,
amazing Victorian dollhouses, Circus World and more!
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