- Just a few miles down the road from Randy's.

I'm about to see another amazing collection.

Iris Schroeder lives in Maplewood and has a doll collection that promises to impress.

I have seen a lot of doll collections in my travels, but I have seen nothing like this.

How long have you been collecting?

- Well, we kind of figured out since I've been 18 years old.

- So this is your collection right here.

- Well, this is just the beginning.

I need to show you the rest.

So if you wanna follow me, I'll take it to the other sections.

- There's more than this.

Yes, - These are numbered and we're up to almost 300 display cases.

- So what you have is not just a collection, it's a museum.

Yes.

- It's called Iris's Poopin House.

- You better explain that Iris's.

What house?

- Poopin house simply means in German.

Iris's Dollhouse.

- I bet you have to explain that to people when they come to visit Iris.

I look around here and I see all of these dolls.

How can a person, one person, have collected all this?

- Well, I've traveled a lot in every place I travel, I find dolls.

- You've traveled all over the world?

- Yes.

I've been to Japan, I've been to Europe.

I've been to the Central America, you know, of course US and Canada.

- Where is the best dolls?

Where do you find them?

Around the world.

What country?

- The majority of the dolls I find in Europe.

And unfortunately due to World War ii, a lot of them were destroyed.

- You were on a quest for dolls.

- Right.

Okay.

Doug, as we come around the corner, you can see these are all China heads.

Well, these are well over a hundred years old.

- Are they expensive?

- Yes, you could say that.

And these are the larger deltas.

This is my first large dollar I ever bought and this is my doll carriage.

When I grew up, my parents had that imported from Germany for me.

That's - Really cool.

- So if we walk down here, here, you're talking about foreign dolls.

Here we have Poland and the variety.

Poland is known for their dolls and their beautiful dolls.

And - They're all handmade.

- Yes.

They're actually, if you look at them, a lot of them have the same mold, but because different people paint differently, they look completely different.

- It's a personal signature in the face itself.

Right.

You know, when I look at all the faces, to me there's personality in all these dolls.

- Yes.

They speak to you, you know, do you wanna come home with me?

- And a lot of 'em have.

- I know.

I know.

And there we have tin heads.

Those are one of my favorite ones.

- These here?

- Yes.

- Why are they your favorite?

- Oh, because I think they're hard to find in good condition 'cause they're well loved and they just intrigue me.

- Is there more to see?

- Oh yes.

If we go around the other corner now.

Okay, so this is another aisle here.

We've got Italy and here I traveled in Italy for about two weeks and we hit every little town.

- They're very intricate.

- Yes they are.

They're all hand done out of clay.

- They're beautiful.

- Here we have the entire Russian section and here of course Scandinavian countries.

- Well that's Minnesota.

How do you possibly do this all by yourself?

- Oh, I don't do it by myself.

- Oh really?

- No, I have a little neighbor boy, which I have adopted as my grandson.

His name is Noah.

- Noah.

How long have you been helping Iris with her doll collection?

- Well, my first job was when I was three and that was painting one of the exhibits.

But when I was a baby, I would sleep in the doll cradles.

- You would sleep in the doll cradles here in the museum?

- Yes.

- So you've been doing this for a long time.

- Yeah, - No, there's a lot of work to maintain this museum.

What is your job here?

- Well, I paint I sand.

A few months ago, me and Oma plastered one of the exhibits sometimes.

Every now and then I'll help catalog.

- Do you know how many dolls Iris has?

- I'm guessing around 5,000.

- Noah.

In this collection, I imagine that you have a favorite area.

There's a lot of areas, but you have a favorite one, don't you?

- Yes.

Follow me.

- Alright, - Doug.

It's right down here.

This one.

- The sports collection.

That's really cool.

You like sports?

Yeah.

What's your favorite sport?

- Football.

- But I see a lot more than just football in here.

I see baseball, hockey, basketball.

Even Hulk Hogan.

Yeah, he's a wrestler.

That's really, really cool.

I would like this section as well.

Good job, Iris.

Your collection is amazing.

Thank you.

I I can see the passion you have for collecting dolls.

Just walking the aisles, it's blows me away.

It's really, really cool.

Thank you.