ceramics museum

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A ceramics museum is a museum wholly or largely devoted to ceramics, usually ceramic art. Its collections may also include glass and enamel, but typically concentrate on pottery, including porcelain. Most national collections are in a more general museum covering all of the arts, or just the decorative arts. However, there are a number of specialized ceramics museums, with some focusing on the ceramics of just one country, region or manufacturer. Others have international collections, which may be centered on ceramics from Europe or East Asia or have a more global emphasis. Outstanding major ceramics collections in general museums include The Palace Museum, Beijing, with 340,000 pieces, and the National Palace Museum in Taipei city, Taiwan (25,000 pieces); both are mostly derived from the Chinese Imperial collection, and are almost entirely of pieces from China. In London, the Victoria and Albert Museum (over 75,000 pieces, mostly after 1400 CE) and British Museum (mostly before 1400 CE) have very strong international collections. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC (12,000, all East Asian) have perhaps the best of the many fine collections in the large city museums of the United States. ¹

Some specialist ceramics museums are (number of pieces are approximate): ¹

Australia National Museum of Australian Pottery, Holbrook, New South Wales – Australian domestic pottery, 1500 pieces Belgium Musée de la Céramique, Andenne, Wallonia – tells you all about the famous ceramic from the city of Andenne Brazil Museu A CASA, São Paulo, São Paulo. Oficina de Cerâmica Francisco Brennand, Recife, Pernambuco. 2000 pieces Museu Udo Knoff de Azulejaria e Cerâmica, Salvador, Bahia. 1200 pieces Canada Gardiner Museum, Toronto, with 3,000 pieces. Medalta in the Historic Clay District, Medicine Hat, Alberta, 53,000. China FLICAM, near Xi'an is a museum for international contemporary ceramics Liuwan Museum of Ancient Painted Pottery, 38,000 Chinese archaeological finds Mumingtang Ancient Porcelain Museum, Beijing Sihai Teapot Museum, a museum dedicated to teapots in Shanghai. Founded by Xu Sihai in 1992, the Sihai Teapot Museum is also the first private museum established in modern Shanghai. The Terracotta Army are on display where they were discovered near Xi'an Yixing Ceramics Museum, 30,000 pieces, mainly from the Yixing area. Czech Republic Museum of Czech Porcelain, Prague Denmark CLAY Keramikmuseum Danmark, Grimmerhus, Kongebrovej 42, DK-5500 Middelfart. ¹

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