Holiday Events, Exhibitions, and Special Hours Offered at The Met

The Met Celebrates the Winter Holidays with Performances, Events, and Special Displays

Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche display. 20 ft. blue spruce with a collection of 18th-century Neapolitan angels and cherubs among its boughs and groups of realistic crèche figures flanking the Nativity scene at its base, displayed in the Museum's Medieval Sculpture Hall. Gift of Loretta Hines Howard, 1964. Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Photo by Gus Powell. Behind the tree: Reja from the Cathedral of Valladolid, Spanish, 1763. Wrought iron, partially gilt, and limestone. Gift of The William Randolph Hearst Foundation, 1956

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is celebrating the winter holidays at all three of its locations—The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Cloisters, and The Met Breuer—with a variety of holiday-themed concerts and performances, as well as its annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche presentation, a display of a spectacular late-19th-century silver Menorah, and handcrafted medieval holiday decorations. Details regarding events, exhibitions, and offerings presented during the holiday season can be found on The Met website.

On Friday, December 16, MetFridays: Season Feels will offer an evening of art-making and holiday cheer, complete with Byzantine pop-up musical performances in the Medieval Sculpture Hall.

Holiday-themed concerts by renowned early-music performers and a festival for the whole family are among the offerings at The Met Cloisters this holiday season.

Final Month to View Major Jerusalem Exhibition, on View through January 8 at The Met Fifth Avenue

The Archangel Israfil (detail), from The Wonders of Creation and Oddities of Existence ('Aja'ib al-Makhluqat) by al-Qazwini (1202-1283). Egypt or Syria, late 14th-early 15th century. Opaque watercolor and ink on paper. British Museum, London. © The Trustees of the British Museum

Through some 200 resplendent works of art from 60 lenders worldwide, the landmark exhibition Jerusalem 1000–1400: Every People Under Heaven unravels the various cultural traditions and aesthetic strands that enriched and enlivened the Holy City in the Middle Ages. Many feature precious materials such as gold, silver, semiprecious stones, and fine pigments; intricate enamelwork; inlaid metal; and stone carving of astonishing virtuosity. Approximately a third of the objects come from Jerusalem itself, including key loans from its diverse religious communities, some of which have never before shared their treasures outside their walls. Through times of peace as well as war, Jerusalem remained a constant source of inspiration that resulted in art of great beauty and fascinating complexity.

The Met Breuer to Open on Two Holiday Mondays

Flora Bar image by Glen Allsop