Before departing the Las Vegas Valley again for my next trip, I squeezed in another seasonal visit to the Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Gardens inside MGM Resorts’ Bellagio Resort & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada. This time around, the rotating exhibit on display was “Lunar New Year 2026: Year of the Horse.”

The Lunar New Year exhibits are the “bonus” fifth seasonal exhibits that they slot in between winter and spring, and as such, they end up having the shortest live periods. This one for the Year of the Horse opened to the public on January 10, 2026 and will stay up for about three more weeks as of today, concluding on February 28, 2026 and entering dark dates on March 1, 2026 in preparation for the spring installment.

One special thing I noticed about this installation that I don’t recall seeing before recently is that they relocated the Garden Table. Usually, this prix fixe chef’s tasting menu experience is situated across the aisle from Sadelle’s Café in the northwest corner of the Conservatory, but for Lunar New Year 2026, they moved it to the opposite, southeast corner instead. I still have never dined at the Garden Table, though one day I imagine I will overcome the feeling of strangeness at the idea of literally thousands of people walking by and looking at me while I eat in the middle of a botanical garden.

Here are some photographs I took of the installment:

Here is a bonus Year of the Horse decoration that was set up right outside of Harvest, a restaurant in the southwestern quadrant of the Bellagio and on the path to the walkway between the Bellagio and the Vdara Hotel & Spa.

If you liked these photographs and want to see more from past installations, I also have blog posts from “Lunar New Year 2025: Year of the Snake,” “The Birds and the B’s,” “Glam Menagerie: Surrealist Summer,” and “All Aboard for Holiday Bells and Whistles.”