The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum will usher in the Holiday Season the day after Thanksgiving, on Nov. 28, 2025, 12 p.m. with a new exhibition titled, Enchanting Lights & Toys: Illuminating the Holiday Season at the Mansion, which will run through January 18, 2026.

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The exhibition, curated by Museum Consultant Stacey Danielson with the assistance of the LMMM Curatorial Committee chaired by Trustee Patsy Brescia, will capture the magic of the holiday season with historic-era tree displays, a 19th-century vignette featuring a sled with ponies, a festive holiday dinner party, magnificent gowns, and more. Christmas lights in America evolved from candles in the 1850s to the luxurious electrified trees available to the elite in the 1880s. Electric strings of lights became mass-produced and affordable in the 1930s, followed by a progression of technological advancements including the LED lights popular today.

Featured in several publications on the holiday season and recognized for several years as one of the 10 Best Holiday Historic Home Tours in the U.S. by USA Today, the Museum will explore treasured Victorian holiday traditions and feature beautiful 21st-century Christmas trees and seasonal displays by renowned interior designer Victoria Vandamm of Vandamm Interiors and floral designer Danna DiElsi of The Silk Touch.

LMMM’s 2025 programs are made possible in part by LMMM’s Founding Patrons: The Estate of Mrs. Cynthia Clark Brown; LMMM’s Leadership Patrons: Dr. Michele & Attorney Miklos Koleszar, and The Sealark Foundation; and LMMM’s 2025 Season Distinguished Benefactors: The City of Norwalk, The Maurice Goodman Foundation, Inc., and Lockwood-Mathews Foundation, Inc.

Photos Courtesy of Alex Rosenfeld and Sarah Grote