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."
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| The Met's Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche |
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| Top of the tree |
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| Ornaments on the tree (some are nearly 400 years old) |
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| The Nativity |
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