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Musée Miniature & Cinéma

Before special effects went digital with CGI, part of the magic of movie making included artists laboring over tiny scaled-down sets, creating little worlds that look totally real until a normal-sized human hand appears in the scene. One museum in France lets visitors explore over 100 such sets, each standing out for its incredible realism. At Musée Miniature & Cinéma in Lyon, you can gaze upon these miniatures as well as a collection of over 300 full-scale movie props.

A visual progression:

An Historical Account of Dunwich, Thomas Gardner, 1754

Antiquities of England and Wales, Francis Grose, 1786

A Topographical and Historical Description of the County of Suffolk, John Kirby, 1829

Coast Scene Near Dunwich, Charles Keene, 1855-70

All Saints Church, 1890

All Saints Church c. 1910, 1914, 1919, 1919-20

While All Saints' Church may have fallen into the sea, its last buttress -- which can be seen on the edge of the cliff in this photograph from 1920:

-- Has been saved, and now stands in the churchyard of St James Church in Dunwich, farther inland. Here is is today:

Furthermore, a brass which was taken from All Saints c. 1760, while it was still standing, has been returned to Dunwich and is also now in St James:

It reads (as best I can make out):

Here Thomas Cooper sutym Baly of this towne enclosed is in Clay Which is the restynge place of fleash untill the latter Day Of one sonne and daughters six the lord hym parent made Ere cruell death did worke his spite or fickle life did fade Who deceased ye XVII of Maye in ye yere of our lord. 1576.

^ although we seem to have lost the one for robert spatchett mentioned underneath it, as well as the effegies he mentions

Control Room, 2004 (embroidery on black velvet) & Space Station, 2006 (embroidery on canvas)

Night view of Monestier-les-Bains, Dauphiné region of France