New York's Jewish Museum has mounted a major exhibition exploring how sacred beauty was crafted across faiths, and the show marks the first large-scale museum effort to trace that shared history. "Sacred Splendor," which opened on September 18, 2026 and runs through February 7, 2027, brings together more than 160 objects that chart centuries of devotion in precious materials. A centerpiece of the presentation is a remarkable group of Christian reliquaries from the treasury of St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, shown together outside Europe in the most extensive such display to date. Alongside them are Jewish ceremonial treasures never previously exhibited in the United States, including objects from the Lingenfeld, Weissenfels, and Środa Śląska hoards. The pairing asks visitors to see how two religious traditions expressed reverence through goldsmiths' work, enamel, and precious stones. The exhibition was organized by Abigail Rapoport, the museum's Mandel Curator of Judaica, and Claudia Nahson, its Morris & Eva Feld Senior Curator. In remarks accompanying the opening, museum director James S. Snyder framed the project as a way of making visible the intertwined artistic legacies of Jewish and Christian communities in medieval and early modern Europe. Alongside the historical loans, contemporary artist Edmund de Waal has contributed newly commissioned work responding to the exhibition's themes, creating a dialogue between ancient devotional objects and present-day making. The show also draws on important domestic collections, underscoring the museum's role as a center for Jewish art and culture. "Sacred Splendor" is expected to be one of the museum's signature offerings of the season, joining a crowded calendar of fall exhibitions across New York. The exhibition arrives at a moment of renewed public interest in how religious art travels between cultures, and its cross-tradition approach sets it apart from more conventional single-faith surveys.