Christmas Tree and Nativity Scene at the Met Museum
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Met Museum Christmas Tree
See the Met's 20-foot Christmas Tree in all its splendor!
The Metropolitan Museum of Art continues a longstanding holiday tradition with the presentation of its Christmas tree, a 20-foot blue spruce standing over a Neapolitan Nativity scene.
The tradition started in 1957 when museum patron Loretta Hines Howard started to decorate a tree at the museum with Nativity figures she'd been collecting since 1925.
The installation is set in front of the eighteenth-century Spanish choir screen from the Cathedral of Valladolid in the Museum's Medieval Sculpture Hall.
The exhibit of the crèche is made possible by the Loretta Hines Howard Fund.
Free with admission. Gallery 305.
Schedule
- Sunday – Tuesday & Thursday: 10 AM to 5 PM
- Extended Hours: Friday & Saturday: 10 AM to 9 PM
- Closed: Wednesday
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