Museum

Daryl wrote: : can anyone provide the name of the museum or a link of the one that : Mastercon visitors can go to showing all those Dioramas : I don't know that any of the dioramas were moved to Dallas when Squadron bought out VLS.

I have seen a "hobby shop" on ebay (attempting) to sell what is purported to be Verlinden's work, but I have no idea if that is in any way connected to what you were asking about.

Bruce

That was "Miniature World" formerly located on 5th street in St. Charles, MO. If all else fails, you may wish try and make direct contact with the man himself, via his website:

There is a fantastic room of miniature scenes in the Chicago Art Institute, on lower floor. These are building scenes- I guess you could call them dollhouse miniatures. There are more than residences, there are shops and even a fantastic church with stained glass windows.

Yeah - I've seen both. It was a shame when they had to close the display in St. Charles, though.

Thanks guys for the info, I always wondered what happened to those displays

Long background of compaies and individuals (Verlinden, Letterman, Stock) merging to eventually end up VLS. They had the Museum for dioramas - but then there were differences of opinion and the company split - this split the collection - the museum closed. I believe there were some problems with a guarantee to the city they wouldn't move the museum else where. So the stuff went off public display. VLS merged with Squadron and moved operations to Texas. Verlinden went elsewhere.