Model trains and the holidays go together like cookies and hot chocolate. Children of all ages can remember trains circling under their Christmas tree, hearing the whistle blow, and the smell of the smoke rising from the engine.

For the 2025 Holiday Season, the Oxford Museum is happy to present a Holiday Train Exhibit of model trains from the multi-generational Passano Family collection.  The Passano Family has been avid collectors and operators of Lionel trains since when long-time Oxford resident, George Passano, was given his first train for Christmas in 1935.

The Holiday Train Exhibit at the Oxford Museum opens November 22 and will run through December 14. The exhibit will display locomotives, train cars, accessories, and literature from the tinplate era to present.  We will also have multiple operating trains at the museum! Come and relive old memories and make new ones with your children and grandchildren.

The Oxford Museum, 101 South Morris Street, is open free of charge, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, 10 to 4.

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