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(From a press release)

Come celebrate the Christmas holiday season at the Strawberry Hill Ethnic Museum & Cultural Center, located at 720 N. 4th Street, in Kansas City, Kan. 

In “Keeping Christ in Christmas,” the Museum will have an exhibit of 32 donated Nativity sets that have been displayed throughout the Chapel.
 
St. Nicholas will visit the Strawberry Hill Museum on Saturday, Dec. 5, 2009, from 1-4 p.m.  Visit with St. Nicholas and enjoy some cookies and milk and have a photo taken for $5.
 
The Christmas exhibits open Saturday decorated with customs from Croatia, Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Slovenia, The Netherlands, Russia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, African-American, Belgium, Greece, Denmark and Mexico.  

Share in the traditions of yesteryear that continue with families of today.
 
The Christmas exhibits opened Saturday, November 21, 2009, and will remain open every Saturday and Sunday from Noon to 5 p.m., through Sunday, January 31, 2010. Take a tour of the beautiful Museum. 

The cost for a tour is $7 for adults and $3 for children ages 6-12.  Children age 5 and under are free. Visit the gift shop and stop by the Tea Room for some special desserts.  Tea Room hours are Saturday and Sunday from 1-4 p.m. throughout the holiday.
 
The Victorian Mansion was built in 1887 for John Scroggs, a prominent attorney in Wyandotte County for his wife Margaret Cruise-Scroggs. In 1919 it became St. John's Orphanage.

In 1988 the house became the Strawberry Hill Ethnic Museum and Cultural Center dedicated to preserving the ethnic heritage of the surrounding areas.
          
If you are interested in booking a group tour of 15 or more please call the Strawberry Hill Museum at (913) 371-3264 or (913) 371-0081 to make a reservation.  All contributions preserve the Kansas City, Kan., landmark.