On a recent trip to Copenhagen I was fascinated by this painting by Kristian Zahrtmann that I saw in the Statens Museum for Kunst (the National Gallery of Denmark). It was painted in 1908, and is an imagined scene showing Queen Christina of Sweden smoking a pipe and...
I’m currently working on an exhibition for Girl Museum¬†about youth groups for girls. Part of it will look at the history of girl groups, so I wanted to write a short blog post as a taster for the real thing! This post looks at how the first girl...
One of the most amazing things I saw on a recent trip to Copenhagen was the coffin of the Egtved Girl, on display in the National Museum of Denmark. Miraculously preserved for over 3500 years, her grave gives us an idea of what Bronze Age Europe was like. The coffin...
I wrote about doll houses in my last post, and thought it was only right that I spent a bit of time on dolls themselves. I have decided not to focus on the use of dolls in rituals or as collectibles, but rather their use as playthings for children...
Since reading The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton, and visiting the V&A Museum of Childhood I have been interested in the history of dolls houses. Now, they are mostly seen as children’s toys, and more often girl’s...
