Frances Glessner Lee, dubbed the mother of forensic science, created eerie dollhouses of death, each meticulously designed to ...

Kris Sanchez has been collecting American Girl dolls since he was a kid. Then, in 2021, with his collection over 230 dolls, ...

Update—October 22, 2024: The Stettheimer Dollhouse will return to public view at the Museum of the City of New York on November 22. Following five months of extensive conservation work, issues like ...

Gail Cook has always loved collecting. When she was a little girl, she collected stamps, coins, and trading cards—but she never had much interest in dolls. Her first foray into doll collecting didn’t ...

Is a doll house simply a small world, a plaything to be outgrown over time? Not for the woman Chip Reid is taking us to visit: “Every day a little bit, I play,” said Dr. Ruth Westheimer. “What do you ...

In the small-scale world of Laura Amy Schlitz’s novel “The Winter of the Dollhouse,” the emotional stakes are both intimate and enormous. By Catherine Hong Catherine Hong is a senior editor at ...

Remember the '80s Cabbage Patch Kids craze? And the '90s when car dashboards spilled over with Beanie Babies? Some people never let a kid touch those novelties and cast an eye to the future, hoping ...