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Dream Homes - Dollhouses at the National Museum of Finland |
 A dollhouse assembled in the 1950s as a pastime by Inga Streng, Master of Laws. Photo: National Board of Antiquities / Markku Haverinen. Kitchen area of the Streng dollhouse from the 1950s. The kitchen is perhaps the part of the dollhouse that follows its own time most closely. Photo: National Board of Antiquities / Jan Lindroth. Homemade miniature castle, 1950s. The roof can be removed to reveal rooms like in a dollhouse. Photo: National Board of Antiquities / Markku Haverinen. Detail of the Luther dollhouse from the 1890s. It was donated in 1938 to the National Museum by the sisters Bärbi Luther (born 1888) and Martha Luther (born 1886), who were kindergarten teachers in Helsinki. Photo: National Board of Antiquities / Jan Lindroth Yakut miniature house of mammoth ivory from the Amur region of East Siberia, 19th century. Photo: National Board of Antiquities / Markku Haverinen.Click the photo to view inside the house. |
12 November 2010 - 2 September 2012, continued opening time
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| The thirteen dollhouses of this exhibition from the collection of the National Museum of Finland represent approximately 150 years of the history of dollhouses, from the middle of the 19th century to the end of the 20th century. They provide a cross-section of the world of dollhouses and the changes that have taken place in society during this period. The other miniature buildings on display expand the world of dollhouses, with its focus on the interior, to beyond their walls. Until the beginning of the 20th century, dollhouses reflected the domestic environments of the affluent middle class or the upper classes in a society in which stratification was distinct and emphasized. For children on their way to adulthood, dollhouses echoed the world of grown-ups. They helped girls practise - either consciously or implicitly - the running of a household. The exhibition includes a few miniature worlds specific to boys' play. Rare items are a few silver object for dollhouses made in the 17th and 18th centuries. New publicationAccompanying the exhibition is a new book in Finnish by Jouni Kuurne, "Unelmien koti - Nukkekotien pienoismaailmat" (Dream Homes - The Miniature Worlds of Dollhouses), published by the National Board of Antiquities and the Finnish Literature Society.The book is on sale in the Museum Shop, price €24,00. Museum Shop Guided tours and special eventsThe dollhouse exhibition includes guided tours and special events.Bookings for guided tours: Tue-Fri 9 a.m.-12 noon, tel. +358 (0)40 128 6464, +358 (0)9 4050 9552. More information about the guided tours The exhibition "Dream Homes - Dollhouses at the National Museum of Finland is on display in the room 215 at the second floor of the National Museum of Finland. National Museum opening times Entry fees |