Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Medieval Sculpture Hall
Now through January 6, 2008
The Museum continues a long-standing holiday tradition with the annual presentation of its Christmas tree, a favorite of New Yorkers and visitors from around the world.
A vivid 18th-century Neapolitan Nativity scene—embellished with a profuse array of diminutive, lifelike attendant figures and silk-robed angels hovering above—adorns the candlelit spruce.
Dramatic tree-lighting ceremonies take place Fridays and Saturdays at 4:30, 5:30, and 6:30 p.m., Sundays at 4:30 p.m., and Tuesdays through Thursdays at 4:30 p.m. Additional ceremonies are scheduled at 4:30 p.m. on two special Met Holiday Mondays, December 24 and December 31.
The exhibit of the crèche is made possible by gifts to The Christmas Tree Fund and the Loretta Hines Howard Fund.
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