Miniatures in the News

Big papers keep noticing our small world. This is the Atlas's running clipping file: comeback stories, artist profiles, and museum shows about miniatures, gathered from newsrooms around the web. We add new pieces as we spot them.

Featured: Miniatures make a comeback as young people seek to relieve stress

The Washington Post · Analysis by Dina Cheney · July 12, 2026. The Post looks at why a new generation is picking up the hobby — from pandemic-era rediscovery to the calm of tending a tiny, perfect room — with voices from working miniaturists like Lee Thomas Seawell of Lee Thomas Miniatures in Syracuse, New York. Read the article.

More press about miniatures

• The Reinvention of the Art of the Miniature — Smithsonian Magazine (2021). How contemporary artists keep reinventing one of the world's oldest art forms.
• 'Small Stories: At Home in a Dollhouse' Exhibit on Display at National Building Museum — NPR (August 2016). NPR visits the National Building Museum's dollhouse exhibition, where historic tiny homes tell very human stories.
• This 13-year-old makes hyper-realistic, 3D-printed dollhouses that sell for $700 a piece — CNBC (March 2020). A teenage maker turns 3D-printed dollhouses into a real business — proof the next generation is hooked.
• Miniature Artists Explain Why They Love Making Tiny Worlds — VICE (2015). Artists from the 'Feel Big Live Small' exhibition on the pull of building whole worlds at small scale.
• Why Are We So Obsessed With Miniature Everything? — Mic (April 2016). From tiny-cooking videos to dollhouse tours — why little things loom so large on the internet.
• Tiny Furniture — Crafts Council. The UK's Crafts Council meets the miniaturists behind museum-quality small-scale furniture at the Miniatura show.

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