Calendar

from the Antique Jewelry University

Jewelry Exhibits 2009

Note: below you find a calendar of jewelry related exhibitions. These are listed in the month of their opening but may run for longer periods.


April

USA & Canada

  • 12/04/2009 – 15/11/2009: Light & Stone: Gems from the Collection of Micheal Scott. Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), Toronto, Canada. .. more info


May

Asia

  • 29/05/2009 - 13/12/2009: Baba Bling: Peranakan Family Jewels. Peranakan Museum, Singapore. .. more info

USA & Canada

  • 9/05/2009 - January 2010: Wrought & Crafted: Jewelry and Metalwork 1900 to the Present. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA. .. more info

Europe

  • 6/05/09 – 8/11/09: Near and Far - Jewelry Artists at the Museum of Cultures . Museum of Cultures, Helsinki, Finland. .. more info

UK

  • May 2009 – October 2009: Elsa Peretti: Jewellery and objects for Tiffany & Co. British Museum, London, UK.. more info


June

USA

  • 27/06/2009 - 11/10/2009: Loud Bones: The Jewelry of Nancy Worden. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, USA. .. more info

Europe

  • 14/06/2009 – 4/10/2009: Second International Jewellery Exhibition of enamelled jewellery. Stichting Museum voor vlakglas- en emaillekunst, Ravenstein, the Netherlands .. more info


July

USA

  • 16/07/2009 - 5/10/2009: Wine, Worship, and Sacrifice: The Golden Graves of Ancient Vani. The Getty Villa, Malibu, Los Angeles, USA .. more info
  • 18/07/2009 - 4/01/2010: Calder Jewelry. San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park, San Diego, USA .. more info

Europe

  • 24/07/09 – 18/10/09: Schmuck von David Watkins - eine Retrospektive.

Jewellery of David Watkins - a retrospective. Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Germany .. more info


August

USA

  • 30/08/2009 – 03/01/2010: Selections of Donna Schneier's Jewelry, Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI .. more info
  • 1/08/2009 - 13/12/2009: The Discerning Eye: Focus on Alexander Calder. San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA. .. more info

Europe

  • 7/08/2009 – 8/11/2009: Treasures of the World. Jewellery of India under the Grand Moguls. The Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia. .. more info


September

USA

  • 13/09/2009 - 3/01/2010: Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea. Houston Museum of Natural Science, Houston, TX, USA .. more info
  • 26/09/2009 – 3/01/2010: GOLD. Fernbank Museum of Natural History, Atlanta, GA .. more info
  • 30/09/2009 - 31/01/2010: Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection. Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, USA .. more info

Europe

  • 6/09/2008 – 3/01/2010 Gandhara – The Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan: Legends, Monasteries and Paradise. Museum Rietberg, Werner Abegg Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland. .. more info

UK

  • 10/9/2009 – 17/1/2010: Maharaja: the Splendour of India's Royal Courts. V&A

Cromwell Road, London, UK. .. more info


October

USA

  • 4/10/2009 - 24/01/2010: Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design. Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, USA. .. more info
  • 10/10/2009 - 10/01/2010: Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire. Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Denver, Colorado, USA. .. more info
  • 15/10/2009 – 11/04/2010: Alexander Calder: A Balancing Act. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA. USA. .. more info
  • Oct. 23, 2009–Mar. 28, 2010, The Nature of Diamonds, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL .. more info
  • 24/10/2009 – 25/01/2010: Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry. Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA .. more info
  • present - march 2010: Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA .. more info
  • present until 21/02/2010: From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith, Brooklyn Museum,NY .. more info
  • present until 21/03/2010: Glass Beads of Ghana, The Newark Museum, NJ, ..more info

Asia

  • Present - 22/11/2009: Cartier Treasures: King of Jewellers, Jewellers to Kings, Palace Museum, Beijing, China. .. more info

Europe

  • 16/10/09 – 24/01/2010: A Century of Finnish Jewellery. DESIGNMUSEO, Helsinki, Finland .. more info
  • 31/10/09 – 7/02/2010: Siegfried De Buck: a career as a jewellery designer and silversmith. Design museum Gent, Ghent, Belgium .. more info


November

USA

  • 3/11/2009 – 28/02/2010: Edge of the Sublime: Jamie Bennett. Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue, WA. USA. .. more info
  • 21/11/2009 - 17/01/2010: Loud Bones: The Jewelry of Nancy Worden. Willamette University, Salem, Oregon, USA. .. more info
  • The Miniature Worlds of Bruce Metcalf, Bellevue Arts Museum, Bellevue,WA, through Oct. 18, 2009; Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA, Nov. 10, 2009–Jan.10, 2010; Southwest School of Art & Craft, San Antonio, TX, Feb. 11–Apr. 11, 2010; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK, May 28–Aug. 22, 2010; Racine Art Museum, Racine, WI, Sep. 2010–Jan. 2011.

Europe

  • 13/11/09 – 7/02/10: Perlarbeiten aus Kamerun. Beadwork jewellery from Cameroon. Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Germany .. more info


December

USA

  • 19/12/2009 – 18/04/2010: Cartier and America, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA .. more info

Jewelry Exhibits 2010

January

USA

  • 29/01/2010 - 18/04/2010: Calder Jewelry. Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI. USA. .. more info
  • 21/01/2010 - 10/07/2010 : Adornment and Excess: Jewelry in the 21st Century, Miami University Art Museum more info
  • 20/01/2010 - 18/04/2010: Art Deco and Avant-garde Jewelry: Jean Després and the Modern Jewelers, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York, NY.





May

USA

  • from 15 May 2010: All That Glitters: The Splendor and Science of Gems and Minerals San Diego Natural History Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego .. more info

Virtual Online Exhibits



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 on the collection