Enjoy a day of winter fun for the whole family at the Morris Museum’s Winter Family Festival on Sunday, December 27, from Noon to 4 p.m. The festival is included with museum admission, and is free for museum members. Admission to the museum is $10 for adults and $7 for children, students and senior citizens.
Train enthusiasts of all ages can experience the romance of the rails in the reopening of the Morris Museum’s Model Trains Gallery. This permanent exhibition, All Aboard! Railroads Real and Imagined opens with a ribbon cutting ceremony on December 27, 2009 at noon.
The exhibition will include a model train installation featuring three separate tracks. In addition, visitors can browse a gallery wall showcasing the diverse ways in which trains became part of the American landscape and imagination. Interpretative panels throughout the exhibition invite visitors to learn more about train history, working on the railroad and more. Hands-on activities will allow children to explore the sights and sounds of train travel and safety, or to imagine themselves as the engineer, lifting an arm and tugging on a whistle.
At the Winter Family Festival, children and adults are invited to visit the Model Trains Gallery and to participate in special activities:
Explore hands-on activities in the museum’s new, permanent Model Trains gallery
Make a train picture frame
Design a railroad
Make your own snowflake
Create a snowman
Decorate a sleigh bell
Hear a performance by the Brightest Star Carolers
Listen and enjoy as a ‘train conductor’ reads The Polar Express
Children’s Theatre
On December 27, the Bayer Children’s Theatre Series at the Morris Museum’s Bickford Theatre presents Santa Claus Meets the Wicked Wizard. "You better watch out …you better not cry…you better not pout …" You want to know why? The Wicked Wizard’s coming to town, and he’s headed straight towards the North Pole. So grab your mittens, buckle those boots, and hop aboard Edie the Elf’s sleigh and save Santa from that nasty villain before it’s too late. This fun-filled musical comedy is a holiday treat for the whole family. Shows at 12:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. All tickets: $8
For more information, call 973-971-3700, or visit www.morrismuseum.org