WCHS Holiday Family Festival & Snow Piles Photography Show Opening
Sunday | December 10 | 1-4 pm
Winona County History Center | 160 Johnson St.
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Holiday Family Festival & Snow Piles Photography Show Opening December 10
Each December, the Winona County Historical Society hosts a holiday fundraiser, the House Tour on even years and the Family Festival on odd numbered years. The Society’s Holiday Family Festival will be Sunday, December 10 from 1:00 to 4:00 PM at the History Center this year. Sponsored by WNB Financial.
Family Rate: $20 household/grandparents with grandchildren
Individual Admission: $5 Adults, $3 Youth
The 2023 Holiday Family Festival offers many traditional Christmas crafts and a visit from Santa himself!
The open house style event has stations throughout the History Center and this year’s lineup includes:
• Hot Cocoa Bar
• Visit and Photo with Santa
• Cookie Decorating
• Holidays Around the World Display with Project FINE
• History of Toys & Santa’s Toy Tester Play Area
• “Stained Glass” Tree Ornament & Coloring
• Holiday Cards Craft
• A few elves will also be playing hide and seek in the exhibits – count them all for a prize!
Plus, for $5 a chance, enter to win a themed gift basket filled with fun winter family activities. Chances will be sold only at the event and the drawing will be held at 4 p.m. that same day too. Need not be present to win.
The History Center Art Gallery and Art of the Rural will also open Snow Piles of the Upper Mississippi on Sunday, December 10. Snow Piles of the Upper Mississippi is a photography and public art project that focuses on the most ubiquitous, temporary, and under-appreciated sculptures of winter. Through documenting hundreds of snow piles in Winona during the last five years, Matthew Fluharty has created a playful and strangely illuminating look into how everyday life (and the landscape of Winona) is shaped through the work and creativity of its citizens. This exhibit will also feature photographs from the Museum’s archive that illustrate the cultural and historical contours of winters past in Winona.
The Winona County History Center is open daily 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. at 160 Johnson St. in downtown Winona. Call 507.454.2723 or log on to winonahistory.org to find more!
Photo: Santa Claus at the History Center.
The Winona County Historical Society and Art of the Rural are members of the River Arts Alliance. To learn more about the benefits of membership, please visit: riverartsalliance.org/membership/.