SANTA CLAUS MUSEUM

from the collection of Mary Elizabeth Hopkins

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A stunning tribute to 20th century popular culture located in historic
Columbus, Texas 
 
 ... at IH-10 & Hwy 71 between Houston and San Antonio

Someone once told Mary Elizabeth Hopkins that if you have three or more of anything then you are a collector.  Hopkins was certainly that!  Having received her first Santa Claus in 1913, when she was just six months old, Hopkins expanded the collection over her lifetime to include more than 2,000 figurines. Today, a visit to the Mary Elizabeth Hopkins Santa Claus Museum is like a walk through 20th Century Americana.

Coca Cola Santa by designer Haddon Hubert "Sunny" Sundblom

THE MUSEUM IS OPEN YEAR-ROUND!

604 Washington Street
Columbus, Texas
Mondays, Thursdays & Fridays
10am-4pm

Admission
$2 - 12 years and older
$1 - Ages 6 - 11 years
FREE for children 5 and under

 

 

The Mary Elizabeth Hopkins Santa Claus Museum is owned and managed by the Columbus Historical Preservation Trust, Inc. and is operated in partnership with the Columbus Convention and Visitors Bureau, 425 Spring Street, Columbus, Texas 78934. Tel. 979-732-8385. www.columbustexas.org  This website last modified at 20:18 on 28, November 2006.