Keep the snow indoors at the festive Woodmere Art Museum

Granted, nobody should be allowed to walk around Philly this year saying anything as ridiculous as “let it snow,” since most of us are still recovering from last winter, but you can still get your snowy fix without provoking the weather gods. Woodmere Art Museum’s Let It Snow! exhibition (please just don’t say it out loud), featuring 90 years of beautiful winter landscapes by Philly-area artists, is running through January 11.

For those who like their holiday festivities in a classy museum setting, Woodmere is offering a range of family-friendly events in December. The Germantown Historical Society lends a collection including a dollhouse replica of a Germantown row home for A Christmas Past in the Pennsylvania German Tradition, and, for the naughty, a chance to meet the ominous, oft-forgotten Belsnickel.

Film buffs can settle in for free showings of 1940’s The Shop Around the Corner, on Tuesday, Dec 9 at 7pm, and 1954’s White Christmas on Tuesday, December 16 at 7pm.

Finally, jazz fans feeling the Christmas spirit can catch Woodmere’s special Friday Night Jazz show on December 19 from 6-8pm, with a sing-a-long featuring tunes like “Jingle Bells,” “Let It Snow,” (no, no, not really, just the song, the song), and “We Three Kings.” Admission is $22 ($12 for members and free for kids under 12).

Woodmere Art Museum, 9201 Germantown Avenue, in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, is offering special holiday events through December 19. For more information and the full schedule, visit woodmereartmuseum.org or call 215-247-0476.

At right: Martha Walter's 'Skating in Central Park,' c. 1925.