Friday, November 28, 2025–Sunday, January 4, 2026
Daily from 12:00–4:30 pm
Tuesday, January 6, 2026–Sunday, January 25, 2026
Tuesday–Sunday from 1:00–4:30 pm
Closed Mondays in January
$5.00 per person, included with a guided tour/event attendance
Free for all Museum membership levels and children 4 and under
Glencairn Museum’s annual World Nativities exhibition presents dozens of three-dimensional Nativity scenes collected from around the world. For many Christians, the Nativity scene is a meaningful expression of religious faith, providing a compelling visual focus during the Christmas season. World Nativities shows how artists adapt the Nativity scene to represent their own spiritual, intellectual, cultural, and regional environments. Settings for many of the Nativities have been created by Bryn Athyn artist Kathleen Glenn Pitcairn.
Saturday, March 7–Sunday, November 8, 2026
Tuesday–Sunday 1:00–4:30 pm
$5.00 per person, included with a guided tour/event attendance
Free for all Museum membership levels and children 4 and under
Ethiopian artists depict biblical stories shared by Christians around the world, interpreting them through a visual language shaped by their own cultural and spiritual traditions. The resulting works are instantly recognizable as Ethiopian, yet they also express universal truths that resonate with believers everywhere.
Ethiopia is home to one of the oldest Christian civilizations in the world, and today more than half of its people still identify as Christian, continuing artistic traditions that reach back centuries. The Sacred Art of Ethiopia celebrates this living heritage through works created over the past thirty to fifty years, including hammered metal processional and pectoral crosses, folding icons, and leather and parchment paintings inspired by biblical themes in the style of traditional Ethiopian illuminated manuscript art.
The artwork on view is on loan from the Bowden Collections, a series of curated traveling exhibitions of sacred and biblical art assembled by Sandra Bowden.
