Art of the Dollhouse Exhibition
Overview
A three-story English townhouse lit by an electric chandelier. A late-1800s French villa hung with handmade tapestries. Chinese porcelain vases recovered from a ship that sank around 1690. Art of the Dollhouse brings nearly 60 antique and contemporary dollhouses and more than 6,000 miniatures to The Kemerer Museum of Decorative Arts in Bethlehem, showing how home life, decorative arts, and play evolved together across four centuries. 6ABC Action News calls it “a collection unlike any other.”
The exhibition draws heavily from the Elizabeth Johnston Prime Collection, once one of the largest privately owned dollhouse collections in the United States. Look for towering houses by German makers Christian Hacker and Moritz Gottschalk, an 1830 Pennsylvania cupboard house that reportedly floated down the Allegheny River, and artist Laurie Simmons’s candy-colored Kaleidoscope House from 2001. Then try your hand at macro photography, or bring a miniature of your own to trade at the Mini Swap Shop.
Art of the Dollhouse is on view October 23, 2026, through June 27, 2027. Hours are Fridays and Saturdays, 11 am–5 p.m., and Sundays, 11 a.m.–4 p.m., with extended days and hours during the 2026 holiday season.
Admission is $14 for adults, $7 for children 4 and older, and free for ages 3 and under. Guided tours, Private Collector’s Hours, and special workshops are also available. Purchase tickets at historicbethlehem.org.
Admission
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- Friday, October 30
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