Museum in Miniature Today’s miniature village-scapes derive from the miniature villages designed to adorn the table atop which the first holiday trees sat in the late 19th Century. Contemporary ...

There has been a revival of traditional holiday decorating, particularly the custom of building and displaying miniature, Victorian-style holiday villages based on the old German markets of Thuringia.

Thanksgiving is in the rear-view mirror, which means it is now socially acceptable to decorate homes for the holidays. Many are content to string up a few lights or stick a plastic snowman on the ...

It’s not so much a miniature Christmas village as it is a yuletide metropolis. When Charlene Daniel’s brother gave her a miniature ceramic collectible toy shop building as a Christmas gift back in the ...

To say Roberta Morris’ ceramic miniature Christmas village is large might be an understatement.On display at the Ogden Rose Library, it spans 600 to 700 square feet and took Morris ...

A tiny reindeer flight school sits atop a ski slope next to Santa’s rooming house and lookout tower, while in the North Pole Village below, Goofy pulls Mickey Mouse on a snowboard and an elf detailing ...

MANKATO — It started with two houses, grew to a neighborhood and became an entire village. This might sound like a case of urban expansion because it is — just on a miniature scale. Over a 30-year ...

Whether in cardboard, wood or porcelain, little villages — with houses, shops, miniature figures and snowy fir trees — have long been part of many families’ holiday decorating tradition. They’re also ...

Tucked away on a quiet neighborhood road is a little piece of Raleigh Christmas history dating back to the 1960s. If you lived in Raleigh in those years, you might recognize the mysterious miniature ...

JACKSON, MO (KFVS) - There's one Heartland town where everyone is in the Christmas spirit, but you can't find it on the map. You'll find it in Loretta and Orville Fluegge's basement in Jackson.

This holiday season, many people have renewed the age-old custom of building and displaying miniature Victorian-style holiday villages in their homes. Young and old alike participate in the design of ...

Roberta Morris poses Monday with a small part of her Christmas village display at the Ogden Rose Library, Ogden. The Studio 56 display, currently occupying an estimated 700 square feet of space in the ...