They’re tiny works of art that can give you a smile. The largest collection of Russian nesting dolls in the country is located at the Museum of Russian Art in Minneapolis. “Sometimes you look at a ...

CLINTON - Collecting is something that is close to the heart of anyone who ever put three things together, then realized it was the basis for something bigger and better. For Pamela Kruskal, of Newton ...

CLINTON – It takes a big house to display 370-plus sets of nesting dolls. So when collector Pamela Kruskal of Newton realized she could no longer show them in her home, a fellow collector told her who ...

Just feet from I-35W in south Minneapolis, the Museum of Russian Art hosts the nation's largest collection of nesting dolls, also known as Matryoshka. The exhibit, “A Thousand Nesting Dolls,” ...

NEWTON — A wooden doll with delicate hand-painted features opens up to reveal another, and another, and another, cradling at its core a figurine the size of a grain of rice. For Pamela Kruskal, each ...

Who doesn’t like a little excitement in their life? If you’re familiar with the phrase, “but wait, there’s more,” then you know it certainly applies to kids’ nesting dolls. These delightful dolls, ...

When you think of things that are quintessentially Russian, you might think of those painted wooden nesting dolls stacked one inside another. NPR's John Ruwitch visited the place where most of the ...

A century after this debut, millions upon millions of nesting dolls have been sold. There’s a Matryoshka doll museum in Moscow that populates two rooms with historic examples, including a three-foot ...

Matryoshka dolls, or Russian nesting dolls as they are commonly called, consist of a seemingly endless series of wooden figures which can be pulled apart to reveal another figure with some resemblance ...

These aren’t your babushka’s nesting dolls! Artist Ginger Williams takes on everyone from the ‘Golden Girls’ to the ‘True Blood’ cast in her quirky doll collection.