Miniature Museum

The Miniature Museum was located at the AMC hospital in Amsterdam. It moved to a permanent space in the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag in 2013. The Miniature Museum was founded by Ria and Lex Daniels in 1992.

Collection

This consists of around 2000 miniature artworks by more than 850 artists, who have made an artwork especially for the museum. The largest pieces measure 10 x 10 cm. The museum has works by; Arman, César, Daniel Spoerri, Jonathan Lasker, Edward Kienholz, Sam Francis, Christo, Dennis Oppenheim, Sol LeWitt, Baselitz, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Mangold, Jenny Holzer, Annie Leibovitz, Sandro Chia, A.R. Penck, Andres Serrano, Karel Appel, Marlene Dumas, Keith Haring, Donna Corbani, Piet van den Boog and many more.

New acquisitions are from Donald Beachler, Erwin Olaf, Louise Bourgeois, Inez van Lamsweerde, Chris Verene, Lawrence Weiner, Martin Parr, Panamarenko, John Chamberlain, Imi Knoebel, Damien Hirst, David Levinthal, Katinka Lampe, Silvia B. and many more.

Visitors

The museum has attracted more than 1.000.000 visitors so far. The money made by the sale of the catalogue has been donated to the Medical Cancer Research Foundation. With this they have provided the foundation with more than 250.000 USD. In the last Guinness book of records the museum has been mentioned as the smallest museum of the world. Next year the museum is planning to bring out a new version of the catalogue.

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