Judging from the number of visitors Rembrandt’s Nightwatch has no greater rivals than the doll’s houses in the Decorative Arts Department.
It must have been in such an atmosphere that the doll’s houses came to be made in the 17th and 18th centuries in the Netherlands.
They were not intended as playthings for childern, the contents were far too costly for that, even less should they be considered as models, or examples of patricians’ houses.
Of the origin of the doll’s houses we are fairly well informed.
