It was a novel experience. Just don't go around Christmas time! It was packed and we had to wait out in the freezing cold for 45min- hour. They did a good job with only letting so many people in the actual house, but the museum across the street was so packed that you could barely move, let alone enjoy the artifacts from the movie. We got out of there as soon as we could. The gift shop had some interesting things and also sold merchandise from the National Lampoon's Christmas movie. I got a nice ornament for my Christmas tree.