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The Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania offers a variety of different art forms for visitors to enjoy. There are portraits and landscapes and sparkling china and silver and the famous Bohemian glass on exhibit. The museum is also known for its collection of Pennsylvania German textiles and furniture. One of the most popular items in the museum is the E. J. Prime dollhouse and what many consider one of the “best collections of dollhouses in the country”.

The Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts is overseen by the Historic Bethlehem Partnership which is...

Dollhouses come in all sorts of architectural styles but there are some classic architectural designs that continue to be popular with dollhouse lovers. Most dollhouses are created in one of eleven major designs including Colonial, Saltbox, Cape Code, Georgian, Federal, Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Mansard, Queen Anne and Carpenter Gothic. So that you can sound knowledgeable about your next or current dollhouse here is a guide to the typical architectural details present in these eleven house designs.

Colonial style dollhouses are based on an architectural design from the...

A man’s passion for model trains and English village life combined to become a museum located in Long Wittenham near Didcot, Oxfordshire, England. Roye England was an Australian who relocated to England in 1925 and as he put it, “fell in love twice in one day,” when he traveled on the Great Western Railway to his new home in the Vail of the White Horse. From that moment, England began a love affair with both trains and
rural England. As a way to combine both loves, England became a passionate model railway enthusiast with a dream to preserve...

Mount Vernon in Miniature is a scaled down replica of the first president’s home that has traveled around the country and is now at home at the Ford Orientation Center located on the grounds of the Mount Vernon Estate and Gardens in Mount Vernon, Virginia. The Center gets its name from its benefactor the Ford Motor Company Fund, which is the philanthropic branch of the the company.


The Mount Vernon mini mansion was scrupulously built and furnished at the 1:12 scale to be a working model of the president’s home as it looked in 1799,...

Helena Rubenstein who lived from 1870 to 1965 is well known for the cosmetics empire she created. She is not as well known for being the creator of miniature rooms that are individual works of art. Her love of dollhouses and dollhouse miniatures started as a child in Poland where she grew up. She credited her grandfather’s gardener Stasheck with her lifelong love of miniatures. Stasheck carved handmade dollhouse furniture out of wood for Helena and her sisters when they visited and a dollhouse collection was begun.


Helena Rubenstein...