The V&A’s annual festive commission is a four-metre-tall kinetic sculpture by design duo Isabel + Helen

A spectacular baroque nativity scene featuring some 200 figures is now on show at the Art Institute of Chicago

A presepio scene by the sculptor Giuseppe Sanmartino is paired with a 20-foot-tree at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Museum of Saxon Folk Art in Dresden is exploring regional festive traditions – not least the elaborate shadow plays from the town of Sebnitz