Chris Ogozaly takes us to Grand Haven.

- When people come into this space, they are surprised by two things, the beauty of the home.

I mean, they have a hint of it from the outside.

Especially for people who love older homes, they get very excited about it.

And then for people who came into the museum with no expectations, when they see the miniatures, they're just blown away.

We have people who were maybe dragged in by other family members and immediately they get sucked into it.

I think they're just surprised by the level of detail and the fact that somebody could make that by hand.

- [Chris] At the Midwest Miniatures Museum, you'll find a mix of captivating art and an incredible attention to detail.

- I like to think of miniatures as telling a story.

Especially we have these room boxes and each one tells a particular story.

And the better the artist, the better the story.

And you kind of get sucked in.

And I think that's part of why people become miniaturists and why people are intrigued by miniatures.

- [Chris] Miniatures can be a catalyst for creative thinking and boundless imagination.

- You can see your own fantasy played out in miniature.

And you can picture yourself swinging on a swing or sitting on that bench.

Or your kite just got stuck in a tree.

I mean, you can place yourself into the story and I think that's what's fun.

Some people will look just at the pieces themselves and some people will see more of the greater story played out.

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Chris Green, the museum's executive director, sees guests drawn to miniatures for many reasons.

- Oftentimes, there are places that are created in miniature and so people are connected to these places in various ways.

They either are interested in a sense of nostalgia of something that they grew up with.

Sometimes that's folks that are creating dollhouses that are based off the dollhouses that they felt like they grew up with.

Literally in the case behind me, we have kind of a downtown Midwest USA piece by Albert Hammer that wasn't actually specifically any place, but it was generally a place that he remembered growing up in in the Midwest.

So people are oftentimes connected to these places and then their ability to create them in miniature, have them in front of them and have that new perspective on that place is a really unique, interesting connection.

And it's a very human connection.

- [Chris] As your eyes explore and your mind imagines, the impressive details of each creation become more evident.

- There's a piece behind you that is done in a walnut and there's a whole home that's done in the walnut.

There's a lot of little detail that you can see in that piece and around that piece that's in 1:144 scale.

So it is tiny, tiny, tiny scale.

And all of the pieces in that case are tiny, tiny, tiny scale.

So looking at the really exquisite detail of what people do, over my left shoulder, there's a toy shop that there's a Z-scale train in the toy shop.

So the toy shop itself is built in 1:12 scale.

We call that inch scale.

So an inch to a foot.

And then there's a Z-scale train that is 1:220 scale, the smallest, to my knowledge, train scale that's used.

So there's a tiny train scale and a larger scale kind of toy shop piece that I think is really fun.

- [Chris] It is exceptionally easy to immerse yourself in imagination and wonder at the Midwest Miniatures Museum.

- Every time it's like, "Oh, it'd be so much fun to live here."

And that's to me a very rewarding thing to hear because we're telling the story right.

And people are recognizing that there is something more than just the miniature itself.

It's the greater story.

- The best way to visit with the exhibits here is to slow down and to really just look.

And we find that there are a lot of guests that immediately do that and can find themselves spending a half an hour on one piece without moving on to the next one, just because once you start looking, it's hard to stop looking at all of the very exquisite detail in a lot of these pieces.

What fine miniatures actually are is people that are doing everything in the same detail that it would be in normal full scale at the small scale.

So when these pieces are really well done, all of that detail is there, whether you're talking about an architectural piece that has the kinds of features that this historic home has, the beautiful detailing and features.

You should be able to find those in the architectural pieces that we have here.

Or if we're talking about the way the furniture is built.

Folks in West Michigan have an appreciation for good, well-built furniture.

The really well-done furniture that's here, we have it in our French gallery upstairs.

We have some pieces that are over in our silver cases as well that are really exquisitely done.

The closer you look, the more you see.

And getting people to slow down and really look deeply and spend time with it is hopefully just a really different and positive experience too in today's world, where it's hard to slow down and to lose yourself in those kinds of exquisite details without being distracted by something.

So that's something that's an experience we really want to have the visitors experience here.

Folks won't be able to find another museum like this in the state.

Really, we consider ourselves the Midwest Miniatures Museum.

So this is really a regional destination to come see.

It's something that we want all folks in Michigan to be able to know is here and to come check it out.

I think it's something that you'll find is interesting no matter what your background is or what your particular interests or passions are.