Miniatures Museum of The World-Taiwan (3)

MMOT 1st opened its doors to the public in 1997. The founder,Lin Wen-jen, recounted how he used to always buy souvenirs for his children while away on business trips. Their love for miniatures started while he and his wife, Chin-mei were in Amsterdam in the late 80's. So after his retirement, the couple poured all their energies and much of their resources into them. Besides collecting works by artists from throughout Europe and North America, they also began making pieces of their own.

The loving couple have enshrined many of their favourite memories in their miniaturized art work. Lin was once reported saying "In our travels around the world we've discovered that almost all miniatures are done by couples working together. They just chip away at them bit by bit, as if they were working on their own homes."

There were 3 exhibits (A Street Scene, The Butcher's Shop, and Christmas in Norway) that are especially near and dear to the founders for the two of them personally designed and assembled these works from scratch. These exhibits are infused with realism and warmth, and boasting of such fine detail with a clever concept that they are as good as the ones made by great artisans. Here's one of them:

A Street Scene (1:12)

This is a really long street. Probably the longest in the whole exhibition so I took pictures shop by shop. The sequence of the shops featured are as in the exhibition.

Flower Shop-for Sylvia, Eva & Jayne

Toy Shop- for Katie & Mercedes

Candy/Cake Shop-For Rosanna and all cake lovers

I am afraid the other pictures for the cake shop came up blurred.

Residence of "Mr & Mrs Lucky" ( I named them so for are they not lucky to be living here?)
Rosanna, you should enjoy this one as well.The Clock Shop- Mercedes and her love of clocks


The Cheese Shop-Minikat and her rats
Gazebo- for all of us who love to shop
The Bridal Shop
This one is for Debbie whom we hope will work on her "Belle and Beau" soon.
This is my favourite shop of the whole street. It is obviously also the creators' because this is the biggest shop and because it is the end shop, the side window is also exposed to show more bridal gowns.


View from the side window
The End of The Street
I took these trees for their proportion in 1:12 scale.

Winter Garden (probably 1:48) -specially for Jayne
This part of the post is for mini plant enthusiasts or artisans. I took many close ups for Jayne as we all know she is very particular about getting it as real as possible. I hope you enjoy the pictures, Jayne. I think Mercedes who is doing up her garden for an exhibition, Sylvia, Eva and Katie who once made a plant for her skate shop may be interested in these too.
I love this palm tree!

I took the picture above for the banana trees (behind the palm tree) but it didn't come out so well. Pity, because the banana tree is really great.I hope you have enjoyed today's post. My next one will be on the famous Country Tea House and Antique Shop, a Faerie Garden and a very special house that I love. It was built by a housewife and she took 5 years to complete it. There is also a Russian Consulate but with very sparse interior that I may post and if there is space, a few on the French House as well. Only 1200 photos to go. I wonder if Blogger will let me post that many pictures.