page_title: Ceramics museum
section_title: Specialist museums
hierarchical_section_title: Ceramics museum / Specialist museums
caption_attribution_description: Glass ware and ceramics Museum, Tehran. This museum is set in a 19th cnetury qajar house, formerly the embassy of Egypt.
context_page_description: 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; both are mostly derived from the Chinese Imperial collection, and are almost entirely of pieces from China. In London, the Victoria and Albert Museum and British Museum have very strong international collections. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Freer Gallery of Art in Washington DC have perhaps the best of the many fine collections in the large city museums of the United States.
context_section_description: Many of the historic ceramics manufacturers have museums at or very near their factories, sometimes owned by the company, sometimes independent institutions. Among the more important ones, with large collections, covered in the articles on the concern, are: Meissen porcelain, Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory, Doccia porcelain, Royal Worcester, Wedgwood (now independent), Royal Crown Derby and Herend Porcelain.
  Some other specialist ceramics museums are (number of pieces are approximate):
  in Australia
  National Museum of Australian Pottery, Holbrook, New South Wales – Australian domestic pottery, 1500 pieces
  in Belgium
  Musée de la Céramique, Andenne, Wallonia – tells you all about the famous ceramic from the city of Andenne
  in 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
  in Canada
  Gardiner Museum, Toronto, with 3,000 pieces.
  Medalta in the Historic Clay District, Medicine Hat, Alberta, 53,000.
  in 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.
  in the Czech Republic
  Museum of Czech Porcelain, Prague
  In Denmark
  CLAY Keramikmuseum Danmark, Grimmerhus, Kongebrovej 42, DK-5500 Middelfart. Website: http://claymuseum.dk.
  in France
  Sèvres - Cité de la céramique, 50,000 pieces, 5,000 of Sèvres porcelain and contemporary ceramics
  Musee de la Ceramique, Rouen, 5,000 pieces, 900 displayed, mostly local faience.
  Musée nationale de la porcelaine Adrien Dubouché, Limoges, 15,000 pieces, mostly Limoges porcelain also rare pieces by Böttger
  The extensive archaeological excavations at La Graufesenque, one of the major production centres of Ancient Roman pottery, are open to the public with a museum on the potteries.
  Musée Départemental de la Céramique, Lezoux.
  Musée de la Céramique de Desvres, Desvres.
  in Germany
  Waechtersbach ceramics in Brachttal, Hesse
  Zwinger Museum - the Porzellansammlung, or Porcelain Collection, at the Zwinger Museum in Dresden
  Hetjens-Museum or Deutsches Keramik-Museum in Düsseldorf, 15,000 pieces
  Terra-Sigillata-Museum Rheinzabern, Rheinzabern, for Ancient Roman terra sigillata ware made near the town
  in Iran
  The Glassware and Ceramic Museum of Iran, Tehran
  in Italy
  Museo della Ceramica, in the Picture Gallery, Savona,
  Museo delle porcellane, in the Boboli Gardens, Florence
  International Museum of Ceramics, in Faenza,
  Montelupo Museum of Tuscan Ceramics, Montelupo Fiorentino
  Japan
  claims to have over 500 ceramics museums, public and private, including ones at Ibaraki, Bizen, Kyoto, Arita (Kyushu Ceramic Museum), and Tokyo.  The Arita Porcelain Park is perhaps the world's only theme park based on ceramics.
  NGK Museum, specializing in industrial ceramics
  in South Korea
  Gyeonggi Ceramic Museum, Gwanggju
  Icheon World Ceramic Center,
  in the Netherlands
  Princessehof Ceramics Museum, Leeuwarden,
  in Portugal
  Museu de Cerâmica, Caldas da Rainha, Portuguese and other ceramics,
  Museu de Cerâmica de Sacavém, Sacavém
  in Russia
  State Ceramics Museum, Kuskovo Palace, Moscow, 30,000 pieces, Russian, French and other ceramics from the Sheremetev collection,
  The Hermitage, Saint Petersburg - includes the Museum of The Imperial Porcelain Factory and the famous Frog service made by Josiah Wedgwood for Catherine the Great.
  Pottery Museum, Skopin, Ryazan Oblast, Skopin pottery
  in Spain
  Museu de Ceràmica, in the Museu de les Arts Aplicades, Barcelona
  Museo Nacional de Cerámica y de las Artes Suntuarias González Martí, Valencia, with over 5,000 pieces, mostly produced in the region.
  in Sweden
  Gustavsberg Porcelain Museum (Gustavsberg
caption: The 19th-century building (formerly the Egyptian embassy) of the Tehran The Glassware and Ceramic Museum of Iran.
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