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[[File:Grasshoper.jpg|thumbnail|'''Micro miniature''': [[grasshopper]] playing on the violin]]<br />
[[File:Проделки "левши".jpg|thumb|Microminiature sculpture by Vladimir Aniskin]]<br />
[[File:Micro miniature by Edward Ter-Ghazarian 1.jpg|thumb|Micro miniature in the eye of a needle by Edward Ter-Ghazarian]]<br />
'''Micro miniature''' (also called '''micro art''' or '''micro sculpture''') is a fine art form. Micro [[figurine|miniatures]] are made with the assistance of [[microscope]]s, or eye surgeon tools.<ref name="PRI" /> It originated at the end of 20th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dissercat.com/content/khudozhestvennaya-mikrominiatyura-kak-sredstvo-postroeniya-mikrokosma-kultury|title=Определение из диссертации Станислава Коненко "Художественная микроминиатюра как средство построения микрокосма культуры"}}</ref><br />
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==Museums==<br />
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The [[National Museum of Toys and Miniatures]] in [[Kansas City, Missouri]] has micro-miniatures in their permanent collection and in their exhibit titled ''Micro Curiosities'', a permanent exhibit displaying the work of several fine-scale miniature artists.<br />
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The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in New York City holds a micro-miniature basket made by a [[Pomo]] Native American artist around 1910.<ref name="MET">{{cite web |title=Micro-miniature one-rod coiled basket |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/848983 |website=Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=30 June 2022}}</ref> <br />
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The [[Museum of Jurassic Technology]] in [[Culver City, California]] has a collection of the microminiatures of the Armenian artist Hagop Sandaldjian in their permanent exhibition, ''The Eye of the Needle''.<ref name="MJT">{{cite web |title=The Eye of the Needle: The Microminiatures of Hagop Sandaldjian |url=https://www.mjt.org/exhibits/hagop/hagop2.html |publisher=Museum of Jurassic Technology |access-date=30 June 2022}}</ref><ref name="Weschler">{{cite book |last1=Weschler |first1=Lawrence |title=Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder |date=2013 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |location=New York |isbn=9780307833983 |pages=59–60 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qi0KXWvM8HIC |access-date=30 June 2022}}</ref><br />
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The [[Museum of Miniatures in Prague|Museum of Miniatures]] located in Prague focuses on works of microminiature art. It features the work of Edward Ter Ghazarian, Anatoly Konenko, Nikolai Aldunin among others.<ref name="PRI">{{cite web |title=Small is beautiful: Prague museum focuses on micro miniature art |url=https://english.radio.cz/small-beautiful-prague-museum-focuses-micro-miniature-art-8685983 |website=Prague Radio International |date=17 July 2020 |access-date=30 June 2022}}</ref><br />
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The [[Museum of Microminiatures]] in St. Petersburg includes micro-miniature work by Vladimir Aniskin of Novosibirsk, Siberia, as well as Nikolai Aldunin of Moscow.<ref name="BBC" /><br />
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==Artists==<br />
* [[Nikolai Aldunin]]<br />
* [[Vladimir Aniskin]]<br />
* [[Anatoly Konenko]]<ref name="BBC">{{cite news |last1=McDonnell |first1=Sharon |title=The men who shoe fleas |url=https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20170331-where-fleas-wear-shoes |access-date=30 June 2022 |publisher=BBC |date=7 April 2017}}</ref><br />
* [[Mallikarjuna Reddy]]<br />
* [[Hagop Sandaldjian]]<ref name="Apollo">{{cite journal |last1=House |first1=Arthur |title=A wacky Wunderkammer in Los Angeles |journal=Apollo Magazine of International Art |date=25 February 2019 |url=https://www.apollo-magazine.com/a-wacky-wunderkammer-in-los-angeles/ |access-date=30 June 2022}}</ref><br />
* [[Graham Short]]<br />
* [[Willard Wigan]]<ref name="ES">{{cite news |title=The man who makes millions from miniature art |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/the-man-who-makes-millions-from-miniature-art-6749854.html |access-date=30 June 2022 |publisher=Evening Standard |date=10 April 2012}}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
Ermann, Lynn. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/1999/02/14/they-have-jobs-on-the-slide-microscopic-art/1652e49b-d80c-4612-9cf4-6965bf8afeb2/ ''They have jobs on the slide: Microscopic art''], The Washington Post, February 14, 1999<br />
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