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from the Antique Jewelry University

Contents 1 Permanent Exhibits 1.1 USA 1.2 Europe 2 Online Exhibits 3 2010 Exhibits 3.1 America 3.2 Europe 3.3 Australasia

Permanent Exhibits

USA

• Providence Jewelry Museum, Providence, Rhode Island

Heralded by the Museum as America's Jewelry Showplace, the Providence Jewelry Museum includes a broad collection of fine and fashion jewelry from the 18th century to the present. Some pieces come from around the world but many were produced in Providence and the local region. ..more info

• Wertz Gallery: Gems and Jewelry, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA This 2,000 ­square­ foot addition to Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems is dedicated to gems, the crystals they come from, and jewelry comprised of these precious stones. ..more info
Watch a video of the opening of the Wertz Gallery

Europe

• Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum, Athens, Greece

This permanent exhibition displays "3000 pieces of jewelry and micro-sculpture from 45 collections designed by Lalaounis in the period 1940-1992. They include jewelry inspired by prehistoric art, Bronze Age Greece, Greek jewelry from the Classical and the Hellenistic periods, Byzantium, the art of Persia, the Ottoman Empire and the Far East, as well as creations marking developments in technology and science, from breakthroughs in biology to space travel." ..more info

• Museum of National Antiquities: The Goldroom, Sweden, Stockholm

See gold collars from the migration period, silver pendants from the Viking period, reliquaries decorated with gemstones from the Middle Ages and other amazing objects. Still today, goldsmiths are impressed by the skills of their predecessors. ..more info

• The Treasury, the Royal Palace, Stockholm, Sweden.

Several of The Princes and Princesses' crowns are also on view as well as the silver baptismal font from 1696, which is still used at royal baptisms. Everywhere you look you will see fascinating and exclusive art, steeped in exciting history ..more info

• Guarnacci Etruscan Museum, Volterra, Italy.

A wide collection of Etruscan artifacts among which are splendid examples of Etruscan jewelry ..more info and a video on the collection

Online Exhibits

• Slideshow of the newly found Staffordshire Hoard containing Anglo-Saxon gold
• 'Gold' by the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY
• 'Totems to Turquoise: Native North American Jewelry Arts of the Northwest and Southwest' by the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY
• 'Pearls' by the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, NY
• 'Wine, Worship & Sacrifice: the golden graves of ancient Vani treasures from Georgia' by the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.
• Wine, Worship, and Sacrifice: The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani. The Getty Villa, Malibu, Los Angeles, USA
• 'Encompassing the Globe, Portugal and the world in the 16th and 17th centuries' by the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.
• 'Gallery Guide: Royal Riches' The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and the Freer Gallery of Art of the Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.
• 'Wertz Gallery: Gems and Jewelry' Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA
• A 2 minute video tour of some of the exquisite jewelry on display in the V&A museum in London BBC news, England.
• The Campana Collection Ancient jewelry, The Louvre, Paris, France.

2010 Exhibits

America

Canada
Gatineau, Quebec 23/10/2009 – 28/03/2010 Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures Canadian Museum of Civilization
USA
Seattle 15/10/2009 – 11/04/2010 Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act Seattle Art Museum
Atlanta 26/09/2009 – 3/01/2010 GOLD Fernbank Museum of Natural History
Bellevue 3/11/2009 – 28/02/2010 Edge of the Sublime: Jamie Bennett Bellevue Arts Museum
Carlsbad, California 14/05/2008 – 30/04/2010 Facets of GIA The GIA Museum
Chicago 17/10/2009 – 28/03/2010 The Nature of Diamonds The Field Museum
Cincinnati 24/10/2009 – 25/01/2010 Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry Cincinnati Art Museum
Dallas 4/10/2009 - 24/01/2010 Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design Dallas Museum of Art
Denver 10/10/2009 - 10/01/2010 Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Grand Rapids 29/01/2010 - 18/04/2010 Calder Jewelry Grand Rapids Art Museum
Honolulu 13/11/2009 - 18/04/2010 Ho‘olaulole: The Joy of Wearable Art Bishop Museum
Housten 13/11-2009 - 04/05/2010 Fabergé: Imperial Jeweler to the Tsars Housten Museum of Natural Science
Miami 21/1/2010 - 10/7/2010 Adornment and Excess: Jewelry in the 21st Century Miami University Art Museum
Mobile 2/10/2009 - 3/01/2010 Glasswear: Glass in Contemporary Jewelry Mobile Museum of Art
Newark until 21/03/2010 Glass Beads of Ghana Newark Museum
New York 14/05/2008 - 21/02/2010 From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith Brooklyn Museum
New York 30/09/2009 - 31/01/2010 Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection Museum of Arts and Design
Philadelphia 9/05/2009 - January 2010 Wrought & Crafted: Jewelry and Metalwork 1900 to the Present Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia 4/09/2010 - 5/12/2010 Desert Jewels: North African Jewelry and Photography from the Xavier Guerrand-Hermes Collection Philadelphia Museum of Art
Racine 4/09/2009 - 3/01/2020 The Donna Schneier Collection Arrives at RAM: Art Jewelry of the 1980s and 1990s Racine Art Museum
Salem, OR 21/11/09 - 17/01/2010 Loud Bones: The Jewelry of Nancy Worden Hallie Ford Museum of Art Willamette University
San Antonio 11/02/2010 - 11/04/2010 The Miniature Worlds of Bruce Metcalf Southwest School of Art & Craft
San Diego 18/07/2009 - 4/01/2010 Calder Jewelry San Diego Museum of Art
San Diego from 15 May 2010 All That Glitters: The Splendor and Science of Gems and Minerals San Diego Natural History Museum
San Francisco 19/12/2009 - 18/04/2010 Cartier and America Legion of Honor
San Francisco 15/01/2010 - 16/05/2010 Designers on Jewelry: Twelve Years of Jewelry Production by Chi ha paura…? San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design

Europe

United Kingdom
Aberdeen 4/11/2009 - 20/02/2010 Modern and Contemporary Jewellery Aberdeen Art Gallery
London 04/2010 – 09/2010 Unexpected pleasures - Art and design in contemporary jewellery Design Museum
London 10/9/2009 – 17/1/2010 Maharaja: the Splendour of India's Royal Courts V&A
Austria
Vienna 15/09/2009 – 10/01/2010 Charles the Bold Kunsthistorisches Museum
Belgium
Antwerp 30/10/2009 – 16/02/2010 When stones speak Diamantmuseum Provincie Antwerpen
Antwerp 6/10/2009 – 10/01/2010 Klatergoud en zilveren bellen: een verzameling rammelaars Corals and bells: a collection of rattles Sterckshof Silver Museum
Brussels 10/10/2009 – 24/01/2010 Europalia.china festival: Fils du ciel - Son of Heaven Palais des Beaux-Arts
Ghent 31/10/09 – 07/02/10 Siegfried De Buck: a career as a jewellery designer and silversmith Design museum Gent
Seneffe May 2010 - August 2010 Bijoux contemporains Château de Seneffe
Denmark
Copenhagen 13/02/2010 - 24/05/2010 Crossing the Sea with Fortuna. Saxony and Denmark – Marriages and Alliances mirrored in Art (1548-1709) Rosenborg Palace
Finland
Helsinki 16/10/09 – 24/01/10 A Century of Finnish Jewellery DESIGNMUSEO
France
Cagnes-sur-Mer 24/10/2009 – 17/01/2010 Marianne Anselin, en chemin...avec la complicité de Gilles Jonemann Espace Solidor Place du Château, Haut-de-Cagnes
Paris 18/10/09 – 20/01/10 Dali d’Or & Bijoux de Gala Dali, espace Montmartre
Paris 16/09/09 – 17/01/10 Louis Comfort Tiffany - Couleurs et Lumières (Colour and light) Musée du Luxembourg
Paris 06/10/09 – 24/01/10 Teotihuacan, City of Gods Musée du quai Branly
Germany
Cologne 29/10/2009 - 10/01/2010 Falko Marx. Jewellery from 1966 to 2009 Museum für Angewandte Kunst
Cologne 29/10/2009 - 10/01/2010 Rings of Dieter Roth. Wearable art of a universal artist Museum für Angewandte Kunst
Dresden 24/08/2009 - 4/01/2010 Crossing the Sea with Fortuna. Saxony and Denmark – Marriages and Alliances mirrored in Art (1548-1709) Residenzschloss
Duisburg 24/08/2009 - 4/01/2010 From Picasso to Warhol – avant-garde artists' jewellery Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum
Halle 06/10/2009 – 10/01/2010 Schätze des Mittelalters. Slawischer Schmuck aus dem Staatlichen Archäologischen Museum in Warschau - Treasures of the Middle Ages. Slavonic jewellery from the National Archaeological Museum in Warsaw Stadtmuseum Halle - Christian-Wolff-Haus
Hanau ends 17/01/2010 Jens-Rüdiger Lorenzen - Jewellery Sculptures Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus
Immenhausen, Hesse 11/07/2009 - 14/02/2010 Klein aber fein - neuer Schmuck aus Glas - Small but perfect - new jewellery from glass, part II Glasmuseum Immenhausen
Karlsruhe 24/10/2009 - 21/02/2010 Das Königreich der Vandalen - The Kingdom of the Vandals Badisches Landesmuseum Schloss Karlsruhe
Munich 6/03/2010 - 30/05/2010 Giampaolo Babetto - Jewelry Pinakothek der Moderne
Pforzheim 13/11/09 – 07/02/10 Same same, but different Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim
Stuttgart 17/10/09 – 14/03/10 The Treasures of ancient Syria - Discovery of the kingdom of Qatna Württemberg State Museum
Greece
Thessaloniki 22/07/2009 – 15/02/2010 The magic of amber - charms and jewelry from Magna Grecia and Macedonia Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki
Italy
Arcevia, Marches 10/10/2009 – 30/06/2010 Gold of the Celts (no website) Archaeological Museum of State Arcevia Corso Mazzini, 64 - Arcevia (AN)
Brescia 4/12/2009 – 27/06/2010 Inca - origins and mysteries of the golden civilisation Santa Giulia City Museum
Florence 27/11/2009 – 31/01/2010 Fausto Maria Franchi: Artefatti Preziosi Museo degli Argenti
Treviso 24/10/2009 – 09/05/2010 The Secrets of the Forbidden City. Matteo Ricci in the Ming Court Casa dei Carraresi
Treviso 23/10/2010 – 08/05/2011 Manchu, the last empire Casa dei Carraresi
Turin 26/07/2009 – 10/01/2010 Royal diadems and jewellery: Masterpieces of Italian goldsmiths' art of the Court of Savoy Reggia di Venaria
the Netherlands
Amsterdam 17/10/2009 - 18/04/2010 Oman Nieuwe Kerk
's-Hertogenbosch 17/10/2009 - 31/01/2010 Private Passion – the artists' jewellery collection of SM's Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch
's-Hertogenbosch 26/06/2010 - 5/09/2010 Designers on Jewelry: Twelve Years of Jewelry Production by Chi ha paura…? Stedelijk Museum 's-Hertogenbosch
Utrecht from 16/01/2010 Lingam - Fertility NOW Museum Catharijneconvent
Switzerland
Zurich 6/09/2008 – 3/01/2010 Gandhara – The Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan: Legends, Monasteries and Paradise Museum Rietberg, Werner Abegg Gallery

Australasia

New Zealand
Christchurch 5/12/2009 - 14/2/2010 Talisman Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu
Napier 17/10/2009 - 14/03/2010 Areta Wilkinson: Waka Huia Hawke's Bay Museum and Art Gallery

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