Happy Holidays!

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)

'Tis the season for our Candlelight Christmas Tours! We hope you can join us.

Learn about Victorian Christmas traditions and the the Manor decked out in its finest for the holidays!

Reservations are for 11am, 12pm, and 1 pm of groups of 10-12 (children included). This is for a formal guided tour with our docents.
11/20: All hourly reservation spots are filled.

Walk-in visitors (without a reservation) are welcome to see our decorations inside between 2pm and when we close at 4pm.

Please arrive 10 minutes before tour times and knock on the Museum door (ADA entrance) by steps.

 Reservations will be open after November 1 and close when reservation slots are filled.
As of 11/16/2023: Currently, all time slots are filled. Walk-ins will be welcomed to see the building (look & see) between 2 and 4pm, there will be no additional tours added.

Call or email Gina for more information or to make a reservation.

Office: (908) 453-4381

Please see "Programming" for information regarding parking & accessibility, museum entrance, and more.

Event is free to the public. Our Friends of Shippen is a volunteer group that accepts donations from our visitors at the end of the tours. All donated monies are used to purchase things for the museum.

This is weather-pending.