Final Weekend For ‘Songs Of The Season’

DERBY — For the holiday season, Osborne Homestead Museum has been featuring the sights and sounds of holiday music. Each room in the museum is decorated to reflect a different holiday song.

As visitors tour through the beautiful historic home, they can visit a “Winter Wonderland” and “Toyland,” enjoy the sounds of “Jingle Bells,” and experience many other holiday classics.

As they have done for the past twenty years, volunteers have created the lavish holiday decorations. Volunteer from Ansonia Garden Club, Olde Ripton Garden Club of Shelton, Oxford Garden Club, Naugatuck Garden Club, Friends of Oxford, Derby Garden Society and The Women’s Guild of Shelton’s Trinity Lutheran Church have all worked on this year’s decorations.

Through December 19, the museum will be open Thursday through Sunday from 10 am to 4 pm. Museum guides will offer a special holiday tour.

On Friday, December 17, the museum will present its final Twilight Tour of the season from 4 to 6:30 pm to show the special glow of the decorations in the evening hours.

During the Twilight Tour, the adjacent Kellogg Environmental Center will also be open, displaying a very special exhibit, “Art from Connecticut Forests.” The exhibit features more than 40 Connecticut artists who made works of art from one single white oak tree.

Osborne Homestead Museum exhibits the fine art and antiques of Frances Osborne Kellogg. Ms Kellogg, who was known for her great appreciation of music, would have likely enjoyed the musical theme of the decorating.

There is no admission cost; donations are gratefully accepted.

The museum is at 500 Hawthorne Avenue in Derby, off Route 34 (signs are posted).