November 16, 2009
Friday: Enchanted Colonial Village Opens @ the Please Touch Museum
The Blacksmith Shop, Photo courtesy the Please Touch Museum
This Friday, November 20th, the Please Touch Museum kicks off their holiday season with an annual tradition… the Enchanted Colonial Village.
Since the museum’s days on 21st Street, the museum has invited families to visit their animated bakery, blacksmith shop, toymaker, watchmaker, and a wealth of other stops in the holiday village.
The Bakery, Photo courtesy the Please Touch Museum
The village is no stranger to visitors. From 1962 to 1975, over ten million Philadelphians and out-of-town guests visited the display, then called the Enchanted Christmas Village, at its original home, the Lit Brothers department store on 8th and Market.
The village will be on display at the Please Touch Museum through January 3rd, 2010.
Please Touch Museum
4231 Avenue of the Republic, Philadelphia, PA 19131
(215) 581-3181
www.pleasetouchmuseum.org
(4 responses)
November 16, 2009, 12:00 pm
mazza3 says:
the colonial village lasted longer than that. i was born in 1979 and i remember going through the colonial village as a child. my grandmother worked in strawbridge’s and my grandfather would take my sister and me through when we went to pick her up.
November 16, 2009, 12:00 pm
matt says:
I always thought the village is lame. You just watch it, please note the name of the organization, please TOUCH!!
November 16, 2009, 12:00 pm
Barbie says:
Taking my nephew and mom on Wednesday,Nov. 18th. Can’t wait.Fond memories from my own childhood.
November 16, 2009, 12:00 pm
Doreen says:
I went to see the Enchanted Village every year at Christmastime as a child when it was in Lit Brothers. It was my favorite thing to do and it still gives me that warm and fuzzy feeling when I think about it. I was so happy when I heard it was being restored and displayed at Please Touch. I know by today’s standards, younger people might think it’s corney but for those of us over 40, it’s a magnificent childhood memory.
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