With the opening of the V&A’s revamped Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green, now called the Young V&A, our minds turned to the incredible dolls' houses in their collection.

Much like the original ‘baby houses’ from the Netherlands and Germany in the 17^th and 18^th centuries, early dolls’ houses were primarily used to train wealthy young girls in household management. It wasn’t until the Victorian era that they were considered as toys. Above we can get a glimpse of one in Philip Burne-Jones’s illustration from PB 73, The Young Pretenders by Edith Henrietta Fowler.

This week on the Post we are going dolls-house adjacent!