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Last Chance—Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche Now on Display for the Holiday Season
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Christmas Tree
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Nov 24, 2009 – Jan 6, 2010
Daily
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Directions: Main Building: Take the 4, 5, or 6 train to 86th Street and walk to Fifth Avenue; OR take the M1, M2, M3, or M4 bus along Fifth Avenue. The Cloisters: Take the A train to 190th Street and walk, or transfer to the M4 bus and ride north one stop.
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Free with museum admission
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See the presentation before it closes on Wednesday! Take part in this long-established yuletide tradition in New York and see the Christmas tree and Neapolitan Baroque crèche at the Met, on view for the holiday season through January 6, 2010. The brightly lit, 20-foot blue spruce is adorned with 18th-century Neapolitan angels and cherubs among its branches and realistic crèche figures surrounding the Nativity scene at its base–with recorded Christmas music in the background and daily lighting ceremonies.
Image: Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche display. Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964
Behind the tree: Reja from the Cathedral of Valladolid, Spanish, 1763. Gift of The William Randolph Hearst Foundation, 1956
