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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



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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