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Hever Castle in Kent in England is a historical site that is a sure hit with tourists combining history, a 13th century castle complete with moats which was home to Anne Boleyn as a child, gardens, a water maze, a Japanese tea house, boating, an adventure playground for the kids, and even a macabre exhibit of instruments of torture. In addition to all these exhibits and amusements, there is a collection of dollhouses created by Master miniaturist and artisan John Hodgson.

John Hodgson, who has been creating full size classic handmade furniture...

From royalty to actresses to artists to the wealthy and influential, history shows us that dollhouses have been loved by many famous individuals. Creating fabulous dollhouses can be a very expensive hobby so it makes sense that some of the world’s most extravagant and well known dollhouses were owned by the rich and famous. The world has gained a tremendous social history through the dollhouse collections of people who could afford nothing but the best in miniatures.

The first recorded dollhouse was commissioned by Duke Albrecht of Bavaria in 1558. He created...

The world has benefited from a variety of wealthy eccentrics who decided to spend their lives collecting. This is the case with the National Museum of Play located in Rochester, New York which was created with the collections of Margaret Woodbury Strong. Margaret Woodbury Strong was the only child of well to do parents and grandparents one of which was Edmund Frost Woodbury who created a fortune in the buggy business and then invested in a new company which became the Eastman Kodak Company. Margaret’s parents were inveterate travelers and took her...

Making and watching videos have become a way of life for most people. According to YouTube, individuals around the world watch more than six billion hours of videos each month adding up to about an hour per each person on earth. Every minute approximately 100 hours of video are uploaded to the site. If you have an interest in dollhouses you can watch people put them together and even take you on tours of their completed dollhouses complete with music and lights. In addition to YouTube there are other sites that have...

No matter the growing interest in dollhouses it is rare that one finds an article devoted to dollhouses in the mainstream media, unless it is around the holidays or someone wealthy has died who collected them. It is even stranger to find a full length article on dollhouses in a magazine devoted to emerging technologies. An article on dollhouses did appear in a recent issue of Wired, an American magazine that most people think of in terms of computers or technology. The article written by Wired staff reporter Liz Stinson, is called...