Editing Nativity scene (section)

===United States===
[[File:White House Nativity Scene.jpg|thumb|White House nativity scene, 2008]]

Perhaps the best known nativity scene in America is the Neapolitan Baroque Crèche displayed annually in the Medieval Sculpture Hall of the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in New York City. Its backdrop is a 1763 [[choir screen]] from the [[Cathedral of Valladolid]] and a twenty-foot blue spruce decorated with a host of 18th-century angels. The nativity figures are placed at the tree's base. The crèche was the gift of [[Loretta Hines Howard]] in 1964, and the choir screen was the gift of The [[William Randolph Hearst]] Foundation in 1956.<ref>[http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Christmas2009/images.asp Special Exhibitions] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091204010906/http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Christmas2009/images.asp |date=4 December 2009 }} Metropolitan Museum of Art</ref> Both this presepio and the one displayed in Pittsburgh originated from the collection of Eugenio Catello.

A life-size nativity scene has been displayed annually at [[Temple Square]] in [[Salt Lake City|Salt Lake City, Utah]] for several decades as part of the large outdoor Christmas displays sponsored by [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]].

Each holiday season, from [[Light Up Night]] in November through Epiphany in January, the Pittsburgh Crèche is on display in downtown [[Pittsburgh]], Pennsylvania. The Pittsburgh Creche is the world's only authorized replica of the Vatican's Christmas crèche, on display in St. Peter's Square in Rome.<ref name="Pittsburgh Créche">{{cite web|url=http://pittsburgh.about.com/od/things_to_do/p/creche.htm|title=Pittsburgh Créche – Pittsburgh Nativity Scene|author=Albrecht Powell|work=About|access-date=26 December 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141226094306/http://pittsburgh.about.com/od/things_to_do/p/creche.htm|archive-date=26 December 2014}}</ref> Pittsburgh's [[Carnegie Museum of Art]] also displays a [[Naples|Neapolitan]] presepio. The presepio was handcrafted between 1700 and 1830, and re-creates the nativity within a panorama of 18th-century Italian village life. More than 100 human and angelic figures, along with animals, accessories, and architectural elements, cover 250 square feet and create a depiction of the nativity as seen through the eyes of Neapolitan artisans and collectors.<ref name="Neapolitan Presepio">{{cite web|url=http://web.cmoa.org/?page_id=319|title=Carnegie Museum of Art|access-date=26 December 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130514131350/http://web.cmoa.org/?page_id=319|archive-date=14 May 2013}}</ref>

The [[Radio City Christmas Spectacular]], an annual musical holiday stage show presented at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, features a Living Nativity segment with live animals.<ref>{{cite web|title=Living nativity scene in Radio City Christmas Spectacular|website = YouTube| date=2 October 2012 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpDAMNU0wSM|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170310144031/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpDAMNU0wSM|archive-date=2017-03-10}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Arrival of live animals that appear in Radio City Christmas Spectacular's living nativity scene|website = YouTube| date=8 November 2013 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28D6VN-seR8|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170309095441/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28D6VN-seR8|archive-date=2017-03-09}}</ref>

In 2005, President of the United States of America, [[George W. Bush]] and his wife, [[First Lady of the United States]], [[Laura Bush]] displayed an 18th-century Italian ''presepio''. The ''presepio'' was donated to the [[White House]] in the last decades of the 20th century.<ref>Walters, Gary. [https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/ask/20051216.html "Ask the White House"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170712045840/https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/ask/20051216.html |date=12 July 2017 }}. 2005.</ref>

The [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in New York City and the [[Carnegie Museum of Art]] in Pittsburgh annually display Neapolitan Baroque nativity scenes which both originated from the collection of Eugenio Catello.