We believe that people learn best when thoroughly engaged, and we make it our business to captivate and delight our audiences.

Unlike the traditional museum configuration of discrete cases with sequential or disjunct displays, our village unfurls its neighborhoods, streets, rural lands and forests in a vast, continuous landscape. Representing an American yesteryear of about 1900, the hundreds of antique and artisan-sculpted, historically-dressed citizens interact with family, friends and business associates as would any townspeople.

Visitors can thread their way along any variety of avenues and alleys as in a real town, peering into the open backs of homes and businesses to enjoy the décor and activity therein. From its Gypsy Caravans, orphanage, and Shaker Settlement to the most opulent mansions, you may make some pretty good guesses about the lives, and even the gossip generated behind supposedly closed doors!

While we will encourage school and civic groups to avail themselves of our services, and anticipate visitors from a wide variety of age, cultural and socioeconomic arenas, we expect a great number of out-of-towners who are motivated to come specifically because of the Museum. The entire country boasts only a few dollhouse museums, and none is similar in approach to the Great American Dollhouse Museum. We expect an abundance of tourist traffic.