“A Derby Holiday” at the Osborne Homestead Museum

When:

Friday, November 28 – Saturday, December 20

Thursdays─Sundays: 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

Twilight Tours: Fridays: December 5, 12, 19 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.

A Derby Holiday is the theme for the 2025 holiday event at the Osborne Homestead Museum. Each year, the themes rotate through nature, history, and fine arts. This year, in a salute to the 350th anniversary of the founding of Derby, each room in the home will represent a business that was important to Derby’s history and Frances Osborne. Long Hill Garden Club is assigned the French room and the front bedroom. Always ahead of her time, Frances invested in new technology and had one of her Derby factories manufacture headphones. She later became president of the Fabric Company which made covered wire used in corsets, skirts and bustles. Frances became treasurer of F. Kelly Company which made corsets and dress stays. LHGC will take you back in time to vintage advertisements and costumes from another era. Other rooms will depict the Derby Silver Company, the Sterling Piano Company, the Sterling Opera House, Charlton Comics, and the inventions of D.K. Croffut. Come and see a part of Derby’s history as we go back in time to visit the inventions and ideas that changed how people dressed and lived. We are just one of eight garden clubs who will decorate the Osborne Homestead this year. Originally built as a farmhouse in 1840, the Osborne Homestead Museum is one of Connecticut’s Landmarks and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.