On this day 363 years ago, the biggest town hall in the world opened, in Amsterdam in 1655. And today, the Museum of Miniature Found Objects and Amsterdam Town Hall share the same vision and mission: as the trustees of a precious cultural heritage. Bold, adventurous and innovative, we stand shoulder to shoulder, pursuing new avenues in an intellectual and creative endeavour, while seeking to meet the needs of the many and diverse communities we serve and inhabit. Please see the noticeboard next to the Museum Gift Shop for future events with our sister institution.

The Museum of Miniature Found Objects announces with great sadness the passing of Poupette, the miniature giant anteater who was a great favourite with visitors to Stott's Fantastical Emporium: Revisited, our current exhibition. Regrettably, she choked to death on an olive, fed to her by a well-meaning enthusiast. Please note, we do stress the importance of refraining from feeding the exhibits when in the galleries.

The museum invites you to make a donation to the Poupette Fund. This will be used to commission a memorial to this much-loved Fantastical, who had found her way into so many visitors' and staff members' hearts. Donations can be made online (at MMFO.com), or at the Museum Gift Shop.

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Found objects:

= rose: 11.58am, Saturday 13 August 2016, Gammel Kongevej, Copenhagen.
= toy figure: 10.19am, Thursday 17 September 2015, Highbury New Park, north London.

The Museum of Miniature Found Objects is delighted to announce the opening of the Professor van Helsing Wing. Yesterday evening the Wing's forthcoming exhibitions programme was celebrated in style at a Palm Court gala dinner, amid the popping of champagne corks and thunderous applause. First in this ground-breaking season is a recreation of the commercial breeding programme of the great Victorian entrepreneur Bartholomew Stott. Nineteenth-century Liverpool was home to an extraordinary project, carried out at Stott's Fantastical Emporium. With the domestic market rapidly developing an insatiable appetite for pets, the Emporium bred and supplied savage wild animals, but in miniature form, to meet this demand. These included wildebeest, polar bear, crocodile and many other species, none taller than 12 inches in height. It has been estimated that in 1857 two in every five households owned a Stott Fantastical, and many a suburban lawn was graced with a herd of exotic wildlife, the water buffalo proving especially popular.

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Found object:
= Christmas baubles: 6.07pm, Monday 5 September 2016, top deck of 341 bus, north London.