Titania's Palace

Titania's Palace is a miniature dollhouse in 1:12 scale by Sir Neville Wilkinson designed and einrichtete with thousands of tiny works of art from all over the world.

Background

The painter and former officer Sir Neville Wilkinson built this palace together with craftsmen for his daughter Guendolen. She believed in the garden elves to have seen and was convinced that they lived in underground caves. She asked her father to build a nice house for these elves, whereupon Sir Neville used every free time to give a new home to the fairy queen Titania and her consort Oberon, and their seven children.

The construction and design of the palace as well as collecting art treasures from around the world took 15 years to complete. On July 6, 1922, the palace was opened by Queen Mary and made ​​accessible to visitors.

Equipment

The palace of mahogany has a rectangular plan and is nearly 3 m long, 0.5 m wide and 1.6 m high. It consists of 18 rooms, where there are thousands of miniatures, such as a 3000 years old enamel horse that was found in a mummy, a playable organ in the chapel or Titania's millimeter-sized jewelry. Since the palace is composed of several parts, he could be safe for transport to other countries packaged. It has been shown in more than 160 cities, including the USA and Australia. The money raised benefited children's charities.

Others

Titania's Palace had several owners until it was bought in 1978 by the company Lego at Christie's in London. After some restoration work, he was from 1980 to 2007 in the Danish Legoland in Billund reopened to the public. Since then he has to visit to Egeskov Castle on Funen.

Tara 's Palace, Titania's Palace modeled, can Tara 's Palace - museum of childhood be visited near Enniskerry.