November 24, 2015–January 6, 2016 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - 1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street), New York, NY 10028 - #MetChristmasTree - Purchase advance tickets to avoid waiting in admission lines. Exhibitions are free with Museum admission. Gallery 305

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 installation will be set in front of the eighteenth-century Spanish choir screen from the Cathedral of Valladolid, with Christmas music in the background and daily lighting ceremonies.

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