Petersen House Museum in Arizona celebrates a Danish Christmas all of December
December is a special time at the Petersen House Museum in Tempe, Arizona, and the Museum of Danish America is sponsoring a Danish Christmas Open House there on Saturday, December 13, 2014 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.
The museum’s Debra Christensen Larsen and Nicky Christensen will be present serving kringle and cider!
If you can’t make it on December 13, the Petersen House Museum is also open weekends in December annually for Danish Christmas tours.
Once again, the Petersen House Museum will be filled with Danish Christmas decorations and traditions for the holiday season. This year’s theme will highlight fairy tales by Denmark’s famous storyteller Hans Christian Andersen, including: The Princess and the Pea, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, The Little Match Girl and The Ugly Duckling. Storytelling will be featured on Sundays.
Come see this beautiful 1892 Victorian home built by one of Tempe’s founders and earliest Danish residents, Niels Petersen.
The hours on the weekends throughout December are:
Saturday: 12/6, 12/13 and 12/20; 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Sunday: 12/7, 12/14 and 12/21; 1-4 p.m.
The home is on the National Register of Historic Places and has received the Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation. Petersen House Museum is located at 1414 W. Southern Ave, Tempe, Arizona 85282.
If you do visit the Petersen House Museum, please take a picture from your holiday tour and please e-mail it with a brief story to The Danish Pioneer Newspaper at dpioneer@aol.com.
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