“Holiday at the Cinema” Exhibit at Osborne Homestead Museum

Travel back in time this holiday season and experience some great classic holiday movies and our memories of them.  Who can forget Jimmy Stewart in It’s a Wonderful Life, Maureen O’Hara in Miracle on 34th Street or Rudolph: The Red Nosed Reindeer?   

For the 2011 winter holiday season each room of the Osborne Homestead Museum will feature floral interpretations of scenes from these movies. 

The historic museum provides a lovely setting for enjoying a trip down memory lane.  The museum was the home of Frances Osborne Kellogg, who lived in the house her entire life, from 1876 to 1956.  Come and explore movie classics as Mrs. Kellogg might have enjoyed them.   As they have done for more than twenty years, volunteers create the beautiful holiday decorations.  Talented, committed volunteers represent the Ansonia Garden Club, Olde Ripton Garden Club, the Garden Club of Orange, Naugatuck Garden Club, Roxbury/Bridgewater Garden Club, Derby Garden Society, the Pomperaug Valley Garden Club of Woodbury, the Oxford Garden Club and Ye Olde Kellogg Garden Society.  

The exhibit will be open from November 25 through December 18, Thursday - Sunday, from 10:00  a.m – 4:00 p.m.  Museum docents provide special holiday guided tours. 

On the Friday evenings,  December 2, 9, and 16, the museum will present “twilight tours,” highlighting the special glow of the decorations from 4:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.  Group tours for adults and youth programs are also available; please call (203) 734-2513 if you wish to schedule a group of eight visitors or more.