Holiday Tree
The Origami Holiday Tree is an annual event produced by OrigamiUSA at the American Museum of Natural History. Each year, OrigamiUSA and our team of volunteers designs and produces a stunning tree in the main hall of the Museum, decorated with hundreds of origami figures folded and sent in by members and origami aficionados from around the world. This gorgeous spectacle has been an institute in New York City for many years, and is a linchpin of the relationship between OrigamiUSA and the Museum of Natural History.
Holiday Tree 2010
This year's Origami Holiday Tree will be titled "Discovery." Against a background of familiar groupings according to various museum halls, including the popular dinosaur run, star mobiles, etc., we plan to construct a new top star and different base models.
The base will have three areas: To commemorate the Planetarium anniversary, there will be a telescope, several planet representations, space vehicles (if well-translated into origami). For Race to the End of the Earth, we plan on penguins, leopard seals, sled with dogs, appropriate whales in an icy environment. The third area will represent a dinosaur dig at the Gobi Desert with possible egg nest, dinosaur parts, tools.
We are working on our 'wish list'.
Please contact Delrosa Marshall and Ros Joyce at if you have other questions.
Holiday Tree Galleries
Click the links below for galleries of past trees. If you have photographs of older trees (or more to add to these), please please contact us at ; we'd love to add your to the collection!
Organizing your Own Holiday Tree
Ever thought about creating your own origami Holiday Tree? OrigamiUSA member June Sakamoto has written up a set of guidelines to help get you started! Download them here. If you have an online gallery of photos of your holiday tree, send us a link and we'll post it below.
