Metropolitan Museum of Art--Holiday Decoration

Recently, we ventured to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and found a Christmas Tree decorated with all sorts of ornaments, #MetChristmasTree.  The exhibit is called the "Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche" and was first exhibited in 1957.  The website tells more of the story:

     "The Museum continues a longstanding holiday tradition with the presentation of its Christmas tree, a

     favorite of New Yorkers and visitors from around the world. The brightly lit, twenty-foot blue spruce

     features eighteenth-century Neapolitan angels and cherubs hovering among its boughs and groups of

     realistic crèche figures flanking the Nativity scene at its base."

The Met's Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche

Top of the tree

Ornaments on the tree (some are nearly 400 years old)

The Nativity