Always a delight, The Old Town’s annual celebration of Christmas through the ages adds something new this year: A look at Danish Christmas in the 1960s and 70s. So recent, yet so long ago! Savor the beautifully decorated period rooms from the Renaissance to 1929, see the new exhibit highlighting the classic Danish children’s story “Peter’s Christmas,” and enjoy a historic collection of the traditional Christmas calendars that generations of Danish children have used to count down the days until Christmas.

The Old Town National Open-Air Museum of History and Culture encompasses dozens of authentic period buildings dating back to the Renaissance, Baroque and Victorian eras. Costumed “living history” interpreters in the buildings demonstrate life in Denmark as it once was: cooking in the kitchens, doing business in the shops and even brewing beer from an age-old recipe in the town’s wonderful working brewery. At holiday time, The Old Town shines with a special glow when it’s trimmed with historic decorations from days gone by.