Well, history is no small subject except at one Danville Museum.

The Great American Dollhouse Museum tells the history of the Commonwealth through miniatures.

So join us in appreciating the small things In this week's Arts and Culture segment we call the Tapestry.

There are over 200 doll houses and room boxes in the museum.

I don't really know how many people there are in the museum.

There are hundreds who live here.

And some people think that maybe they walk around at night when we're not here, but probably not.

The museum is divided into sections.

The first one is the timeline of United States history, and it's snapshots.

It's not every chapter of United States history.

It's just little snapshots from from different parts of of United States history.

When you leave the timeline of U.S. history, you enter the town of Copper Hollow.

And Copper Hollow is a fictional town, meaning there isn't a real copper hollow, and there never was a real copper hollow.

But it's a town like a Kentucky town of its type would have been in 1910.

So it's a town like Danville and it has stores and civic buildings and industry factories.

It has a coal camp, but it's also the social history, which is how did people live?

How did people work?

How did they play?

What did they do?

What did they wear?

Back in the day, whichever day we're showcasing all of this brings back memories for especially for seniors who visit.

I have lots of people from Kentucky saying my grandparents grew up in coal.

That coal camp looks exactly like where they lived.

For the kids, it's really nice because things they've read about in textbooks or in history books or in Little House on the Prairie or wherever, they see it in three dimensions and they feel like, Oh, this is what that really was like.

One of the comments that people make all the time when they come out of the museum is, I can't believe how much I learned about history that I didn't know.

But it's only because it's fun that it works.

I love telling stories that are specifically Kentucky stories.

When I talk about the tobacco warehouse and when I talk about the coal camp and the farm industry and the, you know, the stone fences within the farm, this is Kentucky history.

And it's it's important to me.

It's also important to visitors because when we get a lot of visitors from out of state and they want to do things that are very specifically Kentucky, they're here to see Kentucky and enjoy Kentucky.

So having a lot of miniatures that reference our history has always been important to me.

And it's too cool.

Well, the museum is open Wednesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m..