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The theme of the holiday exhibit is traditional – trains and treasured memories of past holiday seasons.
Special feature for 2023, in the Mize Gallery, giclee art prints by award-winning artist Angela Trotta Thomas, depicting Lionel Trains and antique toys.
Trains by Lionel and American Flyer chug through landscapes designed and built by department staff. New this year is a vintage American Flyer layout from the early 1960s in the Mize Gallery. Also returning are “Amusement Park and Pavilion,” evoking the views and sounds of the historic Myrtle Beach Pavilion, and 1950s vintage trains from a private collector. These historic vignettes wrap the old and the new in holiday warmth inside the Rosen Galleries. Outdoors, you will find a G-scale train display on the lawn in front of the pool in the Jewell Plaza.
The exhibit will also be open on the days the Gardens are open for general daytime admission, but the trains will not be running. During Nights of a Thousand Candles, our engineers will be running all the trains!