"The Dollhouse"

The Dollhouse

One of the goals we set for our travels is to find a geocache in each US state and Canadian Province.  Geocaching can take you to places you would never see or even know about otherwise.  Whenever possible we travel secondary roads instead of freeways.  That’s how we found the cache “The Dollhouse”.  The cache is located beside Highway 2 near Sinclair, Manitoba.  When we are towing the travel trailer, we have to be careful of what we’re getting ourselves into when we stop.  As we approached “ground zero” we were able pullover to the side of the road.

The Dollhouse is a unique art exhibition using an abandoned farmhouse.  It was created in 2007.

Around back, the north-facing wall of the house has been replaced with Plexiglas, showcasing its interior, fully restored with candy-coloured walls and furniture from the 1960s, when the home was abandoned.  "I wanted to show the passage of time … I was able to show what it looked like before it was left, but then what it looks like now, you know, 35 years later," said Heather Benning the artist who created the giant dollhouse project.

Finding the cache itself was pretty easy…there was a path trampled in the grass right to it, but it was hidden in a unique way.  It was well worth the stop.