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The Denver Museum of Miniatures, Dolls and Toys founded in 1981 is located in a house called the Pearce-McAllister Cottage near downtown Denver. The Museum has grown from an all volunteer organization with moving exhibitions to its current permanent location. The busy museum provides workshops, shows, children’s programs and presents exhibitions all geared toward the preservation, collection and exhibiting of dollhouses, miniatures, dolls and toys. The museum also has a tea room for visitors and a gift shop.

In addition to permanent exhibitions, the museum has several...

No matter what your interest in miniatures is from dollhouses to scale railroads to handcrafted miniature silver works of art to military miniatures, you will find it at the Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures located in Tucson, Arizona. This stunning miniature museum located in a state of the art building created by Swaim Associates Architects and with exhibit design by Claro Creative Studios is well worth a visit. The miniatures and the way they are exhibited are like no other miniature museum in the world. Children will love being able to lie on the glass tiled floor to peer...

Angel’s Attic is a museum for miniatures located in Santa Monica, California that is dedicated to raising money to help treat autism, assist the elderly and disadvantaged children. The museum was founded in 1984 by Eleanor LaVove and Jackie McMahan who had the miniature collections that were initially used in the museum. Previous to creating the museum the two women used their love of miniatures to hold shows and garden parties as fundraisers for the nonprofit school for autistic children that was attended by Jackie McMahan’s granddaughter.

The museum is housed...

The Naples Museum of Art, located in Naples, Florida is home to the famous Masters of Miniature exhibition which showcases the Ede & Ravenscroft Collection of miniatures. The miniatures were commissioned by Chairman Michael Middleton of Ede & Ravenscroft, London’s oldest tailor and robe company making academic robes, legal wigs, and menswear. The collection was commissioned to celebrate the company’s 300th anniversary as “Purveyors of Royal Robes to the Crown.” Two famous United Kingdom miniaturists, Kevin Mulvany and Susan Rogers created the centerpiece of the collection which is the recreation of three rooms from Versailles including Louis XV’s Private Office....

One of the premier dollhouse museums in the United States is the Museum of Miniature Houses and other Collections located in Carmel, Indiana. The museum contains well loved and well used dollhouses that might not be quite to scale and miniature masterpieces such as one of the Thorne miniature rooms created by Mrs. James Thorne. The museum came about through the efforts of three women artisans who were determined to preserve miniatures and dollhouses and provide a place where the public could see some of the best examples of the art form. The Museum has over 600 miniatures from individual...