Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
Silver City Museum Victorian Christmas 2017
Silver City Museum Victorian Christmas 2017
The Christmas tree in the parlor.
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Silver City Museum Victorian Christmas 2017
Derrel and Adali Bruton with their mother and Mike Merchant AKA Father Christmas
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Silver City Museum Victorian Christmas 2017
Silver City Museum Executive Director Carmen Vendelin
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Silver City Museum Victorian Christmas 2017
Cheryl Hicklin and Jim Smith offer refreshments in the kitchen
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Silver City Museum Victorian Christmas 2017
Donna Schaeffer, museum volunteer
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Silver City Museum Victorian Christmas 2017
Anastacia Pino poses, pretending to be a little Victorian girl
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Silver City Museum Victorian Christmas 2017
Catalina Pino follows after her sister.
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Silver City Museum Victorian Christmas 2017
Raul Turrieta dressed as a Victorian gentleman
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Silver City Museum Victorian Christmas 2017
Museum volunteers Bea McKinney and Sherri Moser chat in the gift shop.
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Silver City Museum Victorian Christmas 2017
Oh, my. Rebecca Margolis shows a bit of ankle.
Silver City Museum Victorian Christmas 2017
Melia Moore and 1-year-old Hudson Hyatt Moore.
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Silver City Museum Victorian Christmas 2017
Hudson Wyatt Moore accepts a book from Father Christmas, as his dad, Kellen looks on.
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Silver City Museum Victorian Christmas 2017
Father Christmas cradles Loki Passmore.
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Silver City Museum Victorian Christmas 2017
Amos Torres performs in the parlor.
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Silver City Museum Victorian Christmas 2017
Who is that pretending to be a little Victorian boy? Why, it's C.P. Thompson, Daily Press reporter.
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Silver City Museum Victorian Christmas 2017
Antonia Moretti hugs her friend Father Christmas
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Silver City Museum Victorian Christmas 2017
Valerie and Glen Geesaman chat with Melody Collins.
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Silver City Museum Victorian Christmas 2017
Education and Outreach Director Katherine Gauer poses with the parlor tree.
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The Silver City Museum held its annual Victorian Christmas celebration on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017. Music filled the air, crafts were available for kids, refreshments sated hunger and thirst and Father Christmas handed out books to children. Museum volunteers dressed in Victorian-style clothing to fit the theme.