Miniatures are full of bite-sized portions of our world and lives. By transcending spatial norms, models envision and measure real-world size and performance. They help to understand the cultural and ...

In this week's reprint, author Mark Alan Hewitt talks about models and their importance. "For those of us lucky enough to have grown up during the 1950s and ’60s, models were hot stuff—and not just ...

Catalog of an exhibition of the same name, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 26, 2015, through September 18, 2016. NMAI copy Purchased from the NMAI Library Endowment.