In a new book, Museum curator William L. Bird Jr. brings The Dolls’ House to life and that of it's owner, Faith Bradford, a woman of note. Explore the five-story, 23-room miniature home. As Bird describes in the book, it was "a floating object, stand-alone attraction, a house without a home." more »

Three Faiths includes 200 rare and precious works created over the past 1,500 years. Among them, great works of the miniaturist's art and of calligraphy, drawn from all three faiths, delight the eye, as they have done since their creation centuries ago more »

Over 500 women were arrested and 168 served time in jail. Some of that time was served in the Occoquan Workhouse, whose superintendent took great pleasure in giving the women a hard time. When they refused to eat the worm-filled food, he had them force fed. It was an exciting time. Walton tells this story in a compelling style that lets you live the experience more »

The shop at the Rijksmuseum is worth a detour: Bags with zip closing in various sizes; water-repellent, jacquard woven fabric and leather based on a table runner with a strewn floral pattern woven by an anonymous artist from the Northern Netherlands around 1650. more »