Saturday, January 18, 2014

Antique dollhouse collection in the National Museum of Denmark

Last summer I was lucky enough to spend a few days in Copenhagen. One of the highlights of my visit was touring the National Museum of Denmark. Not only did they have a very interesting special exhibit about the Vikings, but they also have an excellent antique dollhouse collection.

I have posted some of my pictures of the collection below. The dollhouse room was quite dark and the houses were behind glass, so I apologize for the quality of the photos. I think you will enjoy them despite the bad photography.

























I have this little chef in my own collection.



















It was fun to see furniture that I have in my collection in the exhibit. I have the clock, buffet and chairs.



























This lovely large China doll relaxing on a child sized settee was part of an 19th century drawing room exhibit



I fell in love with this corner cabinet dollhouse. 

I would love to try to make a reproduction of it. It is so charming with built-in shelves and fireplaces.

14 comments:

  1. I just love the older houses! How wonderful to get to go see them, thanks for sharing and I hope you'll share pics if you do make a corner shelf dollhouse!
    Teresa from,
    sugar, spice and whatever's nice

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  2. What a wonderful display. Thank you for sharing. I enjoy the antique ones. There is a lot of good inspiration here.

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  3. What a wonderful collection and lovely pictures! Thank you for sharing.
    greetins from Holland
    Margot

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  4. Thank you for sharing this wonderful range of photos. Some of the houses and items within them are just beautiful. I kept going over and over the photos and seeing new things each time.

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  5. Beautiful exhibit, thank you for taking and sharing the pictures! The corner dollhouse looks nice! I am also hoping you will make one!
    Véronique

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  6. Thanks for sharing the photos :) It's so interesting to see antique dollhouses :)
    I love the doll from the last two photos - she's so cute :)
    Pozdrawiam

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  7. what a wonderful post.
    Lovely dollshouses!!

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  8. Yet another reason I must visit Denmark (besides my Danish ancestry)! That corner-cabinet dollhouse is brilliant - like a space-saving jewel box just waiting for pretty little things to fill it.

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  9. Thank you, Susan - beautiful houses and rooms, fascinating and intriguing too!

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  10. Wow! What an amazing collection! I have always loved the antique dollhouses.... this is an amazing assortment and your photos are very well done given the limitations! Thank you for sharing!

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  11. Hello Shale,
    Thank you for sharing these amazing pictures. Antique dollhouses have a charm and quality to them that is unique and just cannot be replicated.
    big hug,
    Giac

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  12. thank you very much for sharing your photos of the dollhouse museum! it's alway so exciting to see dollhouses from the past.

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  13. What an incredible collection! Love all the checkerboard floors! CM

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    1. Thanks!! I loved being able to visit this collection, and I enjoyed sharing it.

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