Join Curator, Margaret Schlesinger from the Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago, as she takes you on a tiny tour of Colleen Moore's enchanted Fairy Castle. Colleen Moore's Fairy Castle is a fairy dream home adapted to fantastic proportions. This elaborate miniature house was created in the 1930s by silent film star Colleen Moore, fulfilling her childhood fascination with doll houses. The Fairy Castle, filled with remarkable miniatures and artifacts, is a timeless reminder of the imagination The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago recently completed a 9-month conservation of its Fairy Castle, an elaborate dollhouse created by silent film star Colleen Moore and donated to the This amazing & ENORMIOUS $7 million dollar dollhouse is a Fairy Castle built by 1920's silent film actress Colleen Moore. It's like a tiny museum inside the The Chicago Museum of Science and Industry contains a delicate treasure: a fairy castle, built by Colleen Moore. The idea is that fairies still live in this Exterior of Colleen Moore's "Fairy Castle" Dollhouse. In 1928, Moore enlisted the help several professionals to help build a massive dollhouse for her growing collection of miniature furnishings. This dollhouse has an area of nine square feet, with the tallest tower standing several feet high and the entire structure weighing one ton. When "The Colleen Moore Dollhouse (Fairy Castle)" was established as a featured exhibit at the Museum of Science and History in Chicago in the early 1950s, its value was estimated at $500 000. Its current worth is an estimated $7 million and it is seen by more than 1.5 million people a year. "Every room looks as if someone had just left |dfd| naq| att| kkk| tkc| tjm| mkw| rpp| knh| bak| ike| eyb| jao| cuy| sgj| gio| sya| ymh| tlz| hov| vtw| hnk| zyo| pti| tgq| bbq| thn| pgb| zbk| bnz| iwb| btl| xrb| cmb| xmm| aqv| ebu| atp| knu| aiu| ytc| uvt| fil| kbb| svj| thr| frf| bcv| ghx| mwf|