Opening reception Thursday, December 1, from 7 to 9 PM

Members Free. $5 for Non-members. Holiday Exhibit Donations Encouraged

The Bergen Museum ushers in the holiday season with a miniature dollhouse and model train exhibit beginning November 26th and running through January 12th 2006, according to Jim Bohan, chairman for the exhibit. A special opening reception will be held on Thursday, December 1, from 7 to 9 PM. Admission free to members, $5 to nonmembers.

Featured in the dual exhibit is a dollhouse built in the 1960 in an 18th century English Tudor style and 15 mini-room boxes designed and furnished by Helen DiLiberto, who has donated the display to the Museum’s permanent collection. She has made the mini-room boxes in various period-correct themes from assorted decades of the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition, she has included 35 dolls, each about 12” high, representing assorted nations. Helen, a resident of Washington Township and a member of Jersey Metro Minis, relates a story of how, as a child, she was given a dollhouse that was her treasure, but in later years left her possession – only to have it come back to her hands by sheer chance 50 years later, sparking anew an interest in designing, building and furnishing them