Miniatures Museum of Taiwan
Basement gallery of hand-built dollhouses and room boxes at one-twelfth scale, from Victorian mansions to fairy-tale scenes.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Miniatures Museum of Taiwan traces the story of a Victorian mansion demolished in Los Angeles and reborn in miniature by an American graduate student named Reginald Twigg. It follows Twigg's appeal for funding in a hobbyist magazine, and how a retired Taiwanese engineer named Lin Wen-jen, an unlikely collector of dollhouses, answered it. Look for the lace curtains and staircase detail on the mansion behind the glass.
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