ADVENT CALENDAR 2025

December 15

TYROLEAN TABIA NATIVITY

Figures by Original Heide, Italy
Setting by Navidad Nativities, Bucks County, PA
Mixed media, carved balsa
2025

Drawing inspiration from the Tyrolean Dolomite Mountains of northeastern Italy, this Nativity depicts the Holy Family in a Tabia—a traditional 17th-century Alpine barn used for livestock and hay. The barn structure, originally made in the 1980s by the ANRI workshop, was adapted by Navidad Nativities and given a tiered rock base. The evergreens were made by PEMA, and the figures are from the Hannah Collection of Original Heide in Val Gardena, Italy.

On loan from Navidad Nativities, Bucks County, PA

Glencairn Museum’s World Nativities exhibition runs from November 28, 2025, to January 25, 2026. Visit us at Follow the Star: A 2025 Advent Calendar.