The Motts Miniature Dollhouse is a museum of dolls and miniatures, California, USA’ Unfortunately, it closed in 1998 and the works were sold to other galleries, private collectors and specialty retailers, ending nearly 100 years of history’ The Motts Miniature brand still exists today in the form of an online store specializing in collections of high quality miniature and standard, and although the museum is no longer the name Motts Miniatures life’ It has become synonymous with style and quality in the world in miniature, and for many fans of the genre miniaturist, the loss of the museum due to lack of funding is a bad blow’
The museum itself began life in 1911 as a private collection of dolls and miniatures from the Mott family’ This family of Iowa said that his obsession with miniatures began eight years, Allegra, that you open your first box of Cracker Jack fell in love with the world in miniature’ From there, the Mott family in the history of miniatures is guaranteed’
The family itself indicates that Allegra was the desire for a son to keep growing Cracker Jack collection that led to the first show of dolls, as they sought a way to keep dust free even in sight’ The first presentation was a 1850 “East of the cabin,” a life in the house once Allegra Mott DeWitt now husband’ It was created by nothing more than paper, glass and tools, but the trend has been initiated’
From this humble beginning, the family and Allegra Mott DeWitt began building his collection’ In the 1940s, his house has hosted many small toys and tributes to the world in miniature, a hobby that soon became popular’ It quickly became popular for local schools to bring children to see the screens, that the reputation of the complexity of collecting the rate of inspiration’
Soon, the fame of the collection Nott spread beyond Iowa and moved to California sign’ Here, the family started to become a kind of celebrity, and has appeared on television and radio facilities and the promotion of the collection with headquarters in California’ The collection itself, the precursor of the Motts Miniature Museum, was apparently more and more each day’
In 1957, the approaches have been Motts by Walter Knott who owned an amusement park in Orange County, California’ Having seen the popularity of the miniature Motts, he invites her to go to the park’ Subsequently, the Motts opened at Knott’s Berry Farm in 1958, where they stay during the night of 40 years’ The name of the Motts Miniature Museum was first used’
If the contract of Knott’s Berry Farm, a period in 1992, was the end of the collection’ Although the Mott family struggle to survive, ultimately, lack of funding means that they can no longer remain open despite the Relocation – Knott’s Berry Farm support AVERE be some collection can not do without’ However, thanks to his shop, the name of Mott life in miniature, as a reminder of how the models can be perfect’