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Small Stories: At Home in a Dolls' House

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Here's your chance to have a poke around somebody else's house and discover tales of marriage, parties, politics and crime – without feeling nosey. At the V&A Museum of Childhood's winter exhibition, 12 dolls' houses from the museum's extensive collection represent changes in architecture and design over the past 300 years and provide an insight into the lives of the characters that inhabit these delicate creations.

The houses include country mansions, suburban villas and high-rise apartments. Many have been specially conserved for the exhibition: around 1,900 tiny objects have been restored over two years in the V&A's conservation department. Visitors can use buttons to activate a narration for each house and to light up each character as they talk. Exhibits include the Tate Baby House, which dates from 1760 and was passed down from mother to eldest daughter over six generations, and the multi-coloured Kaleidoscope House, designed by ('Girls' creator) Lena Dunham's mother Laurie Simmons. Its translucent walls and floors are embellished with miniature replicas of artworks and designs by Ron Arad, Cindy Sherman and Barbra Kruger.

Local artists have designed the final room in the exhibition, Dream Home, where children can play and add their own ideas. Those reluctant to leave this miniature world will discover a further 20 dolls' houses on display in the museum's permanent galleries.

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