The Play Area features furnished dollhouses and a horse stable and paddock building. Adults can sit with their children or browse nearby in the museum store.

The Play Area is also stocked with a wide range of history books for children. Parents may want to read aloud from our selection of children's books.

The classroom is a large, multipurpose space furnished with durable tables and chairs. Among the activities conceived for the Classroom:

• Hands-on workshops in a variety of areas of miniaturism, such as dollmaking, decorating, making food out of fimo clay, rugmaking, etc.
• Historically based movies
• Visiting Storytellers and Lecturers
• Birthday Parties
• School groups, for use as gathering place, classroom and lunchroom.

The Great American Dollhouse Museum gift shop stocks a large selection of new, vintage, antique and artisan miniatures as well as traditional museum memorabilia such as postcards and tee shirts.