You may remember the classic holiday TV special, "A Charlie Brown Christmas," where Charlie Brown bemoans the aluminum Christmas trees and chooses a live one, sad though it was.

Well, the aluminum trees and ornaments of that era get new-found respect this year at a one-of-a-kind museum in Brevard.

Let's join producer, Clay Johnson, and his videographer, Eric Olson, as they take us there.

- [Clay] The Transylvania Heritage Museum is housed in a 19th century farmhouse in downtown Brevard.

It's modest on the outside, but this time of year, magical on the inside.

It becomes the Aluminum Tree and Ornament Museum, a display of aluminum trees from the 50s, 60s, and 70s, and the only one of its kind in the world.

- [Deb] We're very small.

We're only three rooms.

But I think we have it set up so that it's pretty, and the trees are very shiny.

The ornaments really highlight the trees, and that's what we're really out to do.

And then, we also like to bring them back to a bit of nostalgia.

- [Clay] Each tree has a name.

This one is The Colorado, a tree donated by a woman from there who was born in Brevard.

- Her mom said she was not going to decorate a tree if she was going to be having a baby in December, and so they bought an aluminum tree.

It's probably one of our prettiest trees.

- [Clay] There are two rare colored aluminum trees, this green one and a blue one, adorned with military insignias.

- [Deb] We have a beautiful military museum in town, and that tree is set up in honor of our military museum.

- [Clay] There's a display of the origins of aluminum trees.

- [Deb] We actually have a little farm where we grow seedlings for the aluminum tree in case you wanna see what it's like when they're babies.

- [Clay] But the origin of the museum can be traced to Brevard architect, Stephen Jackson.

- His collection started in about 1991 when a friend of his found one in the trash, brought it to him as a joke, and his group of friends just kept bringing him more and more aluminum trees, and his collection grew so large that he had to find places to set them up.

- [Clay] In 2013, the museum got a grant to purchase most of Jackson's collection and start this annual pop-up holiday display.

The museum also accepts donated trees.

- [Deb] People have been very generous in donating trees to us.

Some of the trees have wound up on our front porch, and we always look for additional ones.

If anybody is looking to rehome an aluminum tree, we will give it the best home, and we love to add to our collection.

- [Clay] The museum also collects and displays vintage ornaments and memorabilia from the era.

- [Deb] We like it when we hear them say, "Oh, that's something that I had," or, "Grandma used to have one of those."

- I know some people will come in here and remember their childhood, but these trees and all these shiny bright ornaments and just the nostalgic feel reminds me of really good times of getting to go and visit with my grandparents and seeing their versions of this at home, so lots of memories for me.

- I like this one with the 45s, because I grew up playing 45s on my stereo.

[chuckles] My kids wouldn't even know what that is.

They'd be like, "What are those things?"

- [Deb] So that's really our main intent is to make folks happier and think of something they had in the past.

And it goes along with the small town feel and Christmas, and I think it's a bit of nostalgia that people enjoy coming to.

- The Aluminum Christmas Tree and Ornament Display is at the Transylvania Heritage Museum in Brevard at 189 West Main Street.

The museum is open Thursday through Saturday from noon to 4:00 P.M. For more information, give them a call at [828] 884-2347 or go online to transylvaniaheritage.org.