CDHM The Miniature Way
April 2011, Issue 15
Dollhouse Tourism, Israel
Page 72

In her autobiography, Rubinstein recalls that as a child visiting her grandparents' home in Poland, their gardener Stasheck would carve miniature furniture for her and her sisters. Thus began her life-long love for miniatures. Of all the art treasures she collected, the miniature rooms filled with objects made of ivory, silver, crystal, mahogany, pewter, and many more precious materials, remained her favorites.

"Connoisseurs have traveled from many lands to see these miniature rooms, but I enjoy showing them to children most of all," she reminisced. Children of all ages may still view them at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Although not located in Israel, a miniature model of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre made of olive wood inlaid with ebony, ivory and engraved mother-of-pearl resides in the British Museum but was constructed in the Holy Land as a souvenir of the aristocracy in the late 17th century. The