It was initially located at the AMC hospital in Amsterdam, but moved to the Kunstmuseum Den Haag in 2013, where it was on a long-term loan for five years.
In the following three decades, a large number of artists were invited to contribute to the growing collection of the Miniature Museum.
The museum has works by internationally recognized artists, including Arman, César, Daniel Spoerri, Jonathan Lasker, Edward Kienholz, Sam Francis, Christo, Dennis Oppenheim, Sol LeWitt, George Baselitz, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Mangold, Jenny Holzer, Annie Leibovitz, Sandro Chia, A.R.
Penck, Andres Serrano, Karel Appel, Carl Andre, Panamarenko, Robert Longo, Kenny Scharf, Günther Förg, Allen Jones, Bettina Rheims, Ed Rucha, Richard Artschwager, Tetsumi Kudo, Peter Halley, Marlene Dumas, Keith Haring, Anton Corbijn, Louise Bourgeois, Peter Beard, Imi Knoebel, Damien Hirst, Lawrence Weiner, David Levinthal, and many more.
[16] The collection’s recent acquisitions include works by Ali Banisadr, Anish Kapoor, Angel Otero, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Daido Moriyama, Donald Baechler, Enoc Perez, Erwin Olaf, Harland Miller, Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, Larry Bell, Martin Parr, Pat Steir, Taryn Simon, Tauba Auerbach, Tom Sachs, Urs Fischer, Yinka Shonibare, and Zhang Huan.
It was inspired and based on an early design by Theo van Doesburg of the Dutch art movement De Stijl and was constructed by the exhibition architects Kossman DeJong.
The smallest works in the collection is a stamp by Robert Longo measuring 2 x 2,5 cm and a landscape painting the size of a pin by Karel Sirag.
Pointing at his large hands, Spoerri said that that was impossible, and added that he was lacking the material to assemble one of his Tableau Pièges on a miniature scale.
Upon hearing this, Lex Daniels headed to a toy shop and purchased a number of small utensils for doll houses.