The Children's Museum~The Dollhouse

After living in this neighborhood for about six years and in this house for over two, we found out today that if you live within a mile of The Children's Museum, you get in for FREE! Can you believe it!? Free! When I think of all the times we could have used an indoor diversion for the kids......anyway, we wasted no time in taking advantage of it.....we went to the museum for the last hour of operations today.

The first stop for Sophie was of course, the life size dollhouse! She was thrilled and would have spent the entire time in there. We will have to come back when she can spend as long as she would like to. The place is all indoors. Its a two story mini house. There is a real working doorbell, much to Sophie's delight. A fully equipped kitchen and living area. All the furnishings are child sized and well made, no crappy stuff. Very beautiful decorating, to scale for the most part, not thrown together haphazardly.

Rocking the resident baby. There were two more upstairs in the bedroom/bath and well stocked library.

Wash those hands before feeding the babies.

The beautifully decorated living room, there is a "fireplace", writing desk, couch, two chairs, filled book shelf, photos on the wall,etc.

The back "yard", including benches for the tired parents to supervise the kiddies. Lovely painted walls to look like a fenced yard, grass and flowers. (You can just see the real kid size stairs going up.)




















Across the hall there is a huge,gorgeous doll house created in perfect scale miniature. In the likeness of Gone with the Wind's , Tara. Just beautiful. There is also an interesting display of toys from all eras of childhood. From quite primitive stuff to modern day toys, and in between.










Here Sophie found some recognizable toys, such as a jack in the box clown, Barbie dolls, Elmo, and a View master viewer.




























Unfortunately these displays were not dated, but you can get a good idea of the time frame by clicking on the picture and getting a closer look.
Here we have a Nifty Knitter, Lincoln logs, and erector set, a yo-yo and small farm animals.






















Three beautiful antique dolls.






















More Lincoln logs, erector set, die cast cars, a slinky, baseball mitt, marbles and a pot holder weaving loom.

What a fabulous place for the children. There is a lot more to this Museum, I'll show more photos in the next post. So many things to see, we will definitely be going back.