All Aboard The Polar Express Experience At The San Diego Model Railroad Museum

Don your pajamas for the all-new Polar Express Experience at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum!

This ticketed before-hours event will immerse children with special holiday activities around the museum, running model trains, and storytime with St. Nick himself, where he will read the classic Polar Express book.

A child’s ticket includes:

Polar Express Storytime with St. Nick under the tree in the Rollin’ in a Winter Wonderland holiday exhibit
Decorating craft ornaments to take home AND put on our wreath
Goodie bags including cocoa, cookies, and a silver bell
Be a special helper to our engineers to help to customize the museum’s Christmas Train that will run all day in our Toy Train Gallery!
Special early morning hours and all-day museum access

Limited seats on this train!

Children ages 2 and up is priced at $20, adult tickets are priced at $13.50 (the regular price of all-day museum admission!), and chidlren under 2 years old are FREE!

There are limited seats on this train, so hurry and grab your tickets now!

See you there, San Diego!

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