This doll´s house museum on the Internet came into being by request for all lovers and friends of doll´s houses but also for interested laymen to make a part of my collection which is in England accessible.
Since the times of human culture, there were and are illustrations of the daily life in miniature edition.
This custom goes back to the old Pharao´s, where grave addition´s consisted one miniature doll´s and utensils of the daily life. The real story about regular doll´s houses is nearly 300 years old. The earliest Doll´s houses came all from Westeurope where the so-called middle-and upper class surrounded themselves gladly with beautiful objects. Isn´t it the most natural thing in the world to reproduce the reality in a miniature edition? Great lovers of those miniatures were the inhabitants of the Netherlands, who started, to fill beautiful cabinets with curious tiny bits. The actualy oldest of those doll´s house we have got in Nurenberg. For all of you who is interested in little images of the reality or images of the past, nothing is so interesting as an doll´s house. It exactly reflects the taste of its time, their way to live, to cook in the smallest standard.
The style of this houses shows the architectural ghost of its time, the furniture reflect the social status and the taste of the respective generations. First of all the dolls´ houses and rooms wer intended to be most of all as a matter of education for the little girls and the future housewifes. It should be practised very early how to lead a househols in a good way. The great and splendid doll´s houses where left to the nobilty and the high society. Later on through the reduction in size in shape of rooms or in England in some little doll´s houses this way of imaging the reality got civil and popular. From now on commoners could play with doll´s houses. This tradition has been kept up til today. Sind die Traumhäuser unserer Kinder heute zwar nicht mehr unbedingt aus Holz und von den Großvätern selbst gezimmert und gebastelt, so ist doch die Liebe zu einem großen Barbiehaus oder einem Playmobilhaus sicher die Gleiche geblieben. A doll´s house or room will stay the same and a child will remember for all their life. All of the concerns and troubles or the happenings in their family can be shared and can be played again. The director is the child itselfs.
Perhaps you will find under all of those houses and rooms your own one? Find a piece of the lost childhood? You will get some shining eyes throug the jouney into your childhood and past. I wish that will all of my heart. Because this is a private museum at this time it is not accessible for the public. In an isolated case by inquiry and by e-mail it could be agreed to visit and viewing the collection in England. On a longer term it is my aim to arrange a public museum because the collection as well contains a property from about 150 old dolls. For the houses and rooms you will find in separate some detailed desriptions if you click on the single photographs. At the moment you will find on the news mainly some information about famous doll´s houses which do not belong to me or aboot famous and worth mentioning collector just as Vivian Greene. But as well some tip-offs about collecting and restoring of doll´s houses and much. At this time the whole doll´s house museum Homepage is still the general building up and in extension. At this time the information and the pictures of this collection get more extensive and complete. Enjoy yourself looking at the pictures and information. Yours faithfully, Katharina Gerstorfer - England
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