A Victorian Christmas at the Silver City Museum 121219

Photos by Sandra Michaud

Local families and visitors alike could take a step back in time and enjoy an old-fashioned Christmas celebration at the Silver City Museum Thursday evening. Around 400 people attended the Museum’s Victorian Christmas festivities with singing, treats, ornament making, Father Christmas doling out gifts to the children, a puppet show and much more. Many museum volunteers and visitors dressed in period costumes and enjoyed posing for pictures.

Music throughout the evening was provided by Joe Neri, Toni and Rick Spiegel, Moonshine, the Concert Band of the Southwest and the Silver Chorale. A gift swap was available, children could learn how to make Victorian style ornaments, folks could do some holiday shopping in the museum store and enjoy homemade cookies and cider in the Museum kitchen. And for the first time there was a seasonal plant sale on the front porch, where people could buy items such as Norfolk Pines.