Does size matter?

Second instalment of the miniature museum, here we go!

After all the movie props, we had the actual miniature stuff.

Check out the origami...

And the really (really!) tiny cranes! (that opening was like an inch wide...or smaller. I can't really remember)

They were inside this

toothpick whittlings (I think they're toothpicks...)

through the magnifying glass

a shed

close up

"Paper cut silhouettes, entirely made with scissors in a piece of paper all in the block. This technique requires a high dexterity, and so that his hand does not tremble, the artist works by slow exhalations."
This is what's written on that sign above the exhibit...you get the gist of it.

mini-warriors

cutout building

Chinese cabinet

closer view...see how intricate it is?

some weird eggs

jazz ants

The strings of the guitar and double bass are made with the first white hairs of the artist ;)
(according to the sign below)

a fishing boat in a lightbulb

close up

odds and ends

more stuff

they're actually this tiny, behind the magnifying glass

food for midgets (er...actually not midgets...the tiny people :P )

looks good though

from another angle

and now fashion accessories for the tiny people

and games too...when you're small, you still gotta have fun ;P

they could be artistic as well...

and who knows what they've discovered in astronomy?

They'd need to build stuff...

with all kinds of tools

not forgetting music for entertainment...

nor fish for protein lol

inspect the fish for yourself

Then there was this scientist's lab. Does it look familiar to any of you? It does to me...



It's actually a 1/12 model of Professor Nimbus' lab. It sounds familiar as well...but I don't really know who's Professor Nimbus. Please let me know if you do...

And some more paper cutouts...I don't quite know how these were done. Maybe with several layers of coloured paper?

Fourvière with the river (see the mini Eiffel tower?)

Dan Ohlmann and the museum

Dan Ohlmann is the museum owner, I think...at any rate he's at least the boss :P You can check out the museum's website here.

But that's still not the end...next post will be about how they use the miniature stuff. ;)

Read part 3!