The Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme is opening its latest iteration of the Wee Faerie Village, featuring 30 installations, on Saturday.

Since 2009, nearly 200,000 visitors have immersed themselves in the spirit of imagination and whimsy of the museum’s Wee Faerie Village.

This year’s theme is Yesterville: A Wee Old-Timey Town. Yesterville is inspired by living history museums such as Mystic Seaport, Sturbridge Village, and Colonial Williamsburg. Visitors can explore the ways of the past with visits to the wee cider mill, dress shop, post office, saloon, blacksmith forge, the general store and two dozen more installations around the museum’s 12-acre landscape.

Among the artists participating are Jean Linville, who said in a statement, “I am participating for the first time this year with my second-grade students at Wesley Elementary School in Middletown, CT. I have been teaching my unit on faerie architecture connected with language arts and nature conservation for 10 years in Middletown and 5 years in Orange as well as with my own children when I was home with them. I am very excited to be a part of the exhibit with my students!”

“Riverside Sawmill” by Linville and Molly Greenberg is part of the Wee Faerie Village.

Megan Jeffery of Cheshire created a Beetlegrass General Store. She wrote, “The general store is where the wee faeries come to shop. They pull up in their lady-buggies and hitch up their horse-flies. Once inside, they snap up a few of their favorite finds: flowers & flour, dried beans & magazines, teapots with polka dots, canning jars & chocolate bars. Faeries also bustle to Beetlegrass for the latest buzz. They shoot the breeze with the bumblebees, get news from newts, and chitchat over checkers with chickadees.”

The Wee Faerie Village is on view through Nov. 3. Museum hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tues.-Sun. The museum is also open on Oct. 14 for Indigenous Peoples Day.

Admission is $20 for adults, $19 for ages 62 and up, $18 for students, $5 for ages 5-12, and free for ages 4 and under and for museum members. The museum is located at 96 Lyme St., Old Lyme. Visit florencegriswoldmuseum.org or call (860) 434-5542.