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Permanent Jewelry Exhibitions

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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

• Here's a list of UK museums with jewelry in their collections

• Here's a list of European museums with jewelry in their collections

Online Jewelry Exhibitions

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• Treasures from the Royal Collection of England
• Gems and Jewels from the Royal Collection of England
• Das Grünes Gewolbe's virtual tour A google streetview-like tour through one of Europe's best Museums.
• 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.

2012 Jewelry Exhibitions

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Lectures & Conferences

The Renaissance Westchester Hotel, Westchester, NY Dates July 27-29, 2012 Jewelry Camp Jewelry Camp is a 3 day conference of lectures and breakout sessions of education on Antique and Estate Jewelry. More info

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Bonhams

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