Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
The Walters Art Museum is one of Baltimore’s premier cultural institutions, renowned not only for the breadth of its collections but also for its deep historical roots in the city.…
Petit Palais, Paris
The Petit Palais, an architectural jewel nestled in the heart of Paris, was originally constructed for the 1900 Universal Exhibition, alongside its grand neighbor, the Grand Palais. Located on…
Musée des Arts décoratifs, Namur
Located in Namur, Belgium, the Musée des Arts décoratifs (Museum of Decorative Arts) holds a distinguished status as a heritage site. Housed within the splendid Hôtel de Groesbeeck -…
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
The National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design (Nasjonalmuseet) in Oslo, Norway, is a treasure trove of art, architecture, and design objects. It holds the Norwegian state's extensive public collection,…
Keramisch Museum Goedewaagen, Nieuw-Buinen
Keramisch Museum Goedewaagen (Ceramic Museum Goedewaagen), established in 1893 in Nieuw-Buinen, Drenthe, is housed in the former pottery factory of Royal Goedewaagen, a company dating back to 1610. This museum…
Koopmans – de Wet House, Cape Town
The Koopmans - de Wet House opened in 1914, which makes it the oldest house museum in Cape Town, South Africa. Before the house became a museum it was occupied…
The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
In northern England located in the town of Barnard Castle in County Durham the Bowes Museum is to be found. This museum built by Jules Pellechet and John Edward Watson…
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) is located in the cultural heart of Canada. Founded in 1860, this museum is not just a landmark but a living chronicle of…
Suntory Museum of Art, Tokyo
The Suntory Museum holds a distinctive place in the vast cultural tapestry of Tokyo. It is recognized not only for its diverse collections but also for its dedication to preserving…
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
The Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford was established in 1683, and is Britain’s first public museum and the world’s first university museum. The collection showcases the breadth of…
Gruuthusemuseum, Bruges
The Gruuthusemuseum is located in Bruges, Belgium. The museum houses its collection in the medieval Gruuthuse, this used to be the house of Louis de Gruuthuse. Louis was an important…
Kröller-Müller, Otterlo
The Kröller-Müller Museum, nestled within the serene expanse of National Park De Hoge Veluwe in Otterlo, Gelderland, The Netherlands, is more than just a museum. It's a testament to the…
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Reims
The Museum of Fine Arts in Reims, France opened its doors in the city’s town hall in 1794. The foundation of the collection was donated in 1752 by Antoine Ferrand…
Groot Constantia, Cape Town
Groot Constantia is a homestead and Wine Museum in Cape Town, South Africa that dates back to 1685. It was one of the first commercial wine farms in South Africa.…
Delftware and ‘Cheese City’ Edam
Edam is a small city North of Amsterdam, famous for the small round cheeses bearing the name of the city. The town was founded around a dam crossing the river…
The Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
The Freer Gallery of Art is located in Washington DC. This museum is a part of the Smithsonian Institution together with the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. The Gallery was…
The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) is located in the beautiful city of Toronto. The institution is Canada’s largest museum and is home to thirteen million artworks. The museum opened in…
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston is the oldest art museum in Texas and first opened its doors in 1924. The original building was designed by architect William Ward…
The British Museum, London
The British Museum in London opened its doors in 1759. The founding represents a milestone as it was the first national public museum in the world. Each year the museum…
Saint Louis Art Museum
The Saint Louis Art Museum is located in Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri. The museum was founded in 1879 as the Saint Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts.…
Musée de l’Hospice Comtesse, Lille
The Hospice Comtesse is located in the historic heart of Lille. Founded in 1237 by Countess Jeanne of Flanders, the former Notre-Dame hospital welcomed the sick and pilgrims. The institution…
Toledo Museum of Art
The Toledo Museum of Art is located in the Old West End neighborhood of Toledo, Ohio. Edward Drummond Libbey, a Toledo glassmaker, founded the museum in 1901. Over the years…
Groninger Museum
The Groninger Museum is a modern and contemporary art museum located in Groningen, the Netherlands. Founded in 1847 by Hendrikus Octavius Feith, the museum was originally called Museum…
Princeton University Art Museum
Princeton University is one of the oldest collecting institutions in the United States. The origins of the collection date nearly to the University’s foundation in the eighteenth century.…
Stedelijk Museum Vianen, The Netherlands
The Stedelijk Museum is located in the town of Vianen, near the Dutch city of Utrecht. The museum forms the cultural heart of the town with historical and contemporary…
Amerongen Castle, The Netherlands
Amerongen Castle is one of the great Dutch houses from the seventeenth century, with the house, garden, and furnishings almost entirely intact. The house and adjoining historical gardens are…
Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg
The Zeeuws Museum is located in the town of Middelburg in the Dutch province of Zeeland. The Koninklijk Zeeuws Genootschap der Wetenschappen (Royal Zeeland Society of Sciences) founded the Medioburgense…
Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid
The Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas (The National Museum of Decorative Arts) is located in the Spanish capital of Madrid. Founded in 1912, it is one of the oldest and…
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney
The Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences (MAAS) is located in Sydney, Australia. The museum is comprised of the Powerhouse Museum, the major branch of the institution, together with…
Holland Open Air Museum, Arnhem
The Holland Open Air Museum is located in the town of Arnhem. This museum focuses on everyday objects and culture from the lives of ordinary people. Antique houses, farms…
Musée national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet, Paris
The Musée national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet (Musée Guimet) is located in Paris and has one of the largest collections of Asian Art. The museum was founded by Émile Étienne Guimet…
Albany Institute of History and Art, New York
Founded in 1791, the Albany Institute of History & Art is one of the oldest museums in the United States. As a Dutch colony in the early seventeenth century,…
Ghent City Museum (STAM), Belgium
STAM is a museum located in the historical Belgian city of Ghent. The museum, which opened its doors at the end of 2010, shows the history of Ghent. Although the…
Moritzburg Art Museum, Halle (Saale), Germany
The Moritzburg Art Museum is located in the German city of Halle an der Saale. It was founded in 1885 as the city’s museum of arts and crafts. It was…
Musée Grobet-Labadié, Marseille
The Musée Grobet-Labadié is located in a nineteenth century ‘hôtel particulier’ in Marseille in the south of France. The museum houses the collection of the Grobet-Labadié family, who originally owned…
Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin
The Kunstgewerbemuseum (Museum of Decorative Arts) is the oldest of its kind in Germany. The museum was founded as a private institution in 1867 and was based on the model…
Musée national Adrien-Dubouché, Limoges
The Musée national Adrien-Dubouché is located in Limoges, France, and contains the largest public collection of Limoges porcelain in the world. Founded in 1845 by Tiburce Morisot, father of Impressionist…
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Originally known as the Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, the museum’s first art gallery was dedicated for public use on November 5, 1895, and was initially housed in what…
Kunstgewerbemuseum, Dresden
The Dresden Kunstgewerbemuseum is located within the Schloss Pillnitz, a Baroque palace approximately ten kilometers from Dresden. Founded in 1876, the museum was initially formed to instruct students, visitors, industrial…
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
The famous Musée d’Orsay is located in the former Gare d’Orsay, a Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900 on the Left Bank of the Seine in Paris.…
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
The Nationalmuseum, or the National Museum of Fine Arts is located on the Blasieholmen peninsula in central Stockholm. Founded in 1792 as Kungliga Museet (Royal Museum) with benefactors King Gustav…
Hallwyl Museum, Stockholm
The Hallwyl Museum was once the palatial winter home of Count and Countess Walther and Wilhelmina von Hallwyl. Today it is one of Stockholm’s most eccentric and engaging museums. The…
Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Museum Catharijneconvent occupies a characteristic building in the old city center of Utrecht. The building has a long history going back to the fourteenth century. Originally, it was the site…
National Museum of Ireland, Dublin
The National Museum of Ireland is divided into four branches: Archeology, Natural History, Country Life and Decorative Arts and History. Since 1997, the former military complex called Collins…
Gardiner Museum, Toronto
The Gardiner Museum is Canada’s national museum of ceramics. It is one of a small number of specialized museums of ceramics in the world. The museum was established by George…
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille
The Palais des Beaux-Arts is located in the city of Lille in northern France. It was one of the first museums built in France, established under Napoleon I at the…
Huis Van Gijn, Dordrecht, The Netherlands
The Van Gijn House is located in the Dutch city of Dordrecht. The original house was first built in 1729 for Johan van Neurenberg, a wealthy regent. Simon van…
Sypesteyn Castle, Loosdrecht, The Netherlands
Castle Sypesteyn was built by Sir Henry van Sypesteyn (1857-1937) on old foundations in Loosdrecht during the early twentieth century. Surrounded by canals and a beautiful garden, the sumptuous castle…
Monplaisir Palace, Peterhof, St. Petersburg
In Saint Petersburg, Russia, a series of palaces and gardens is located named The Peterhof Palace. It was commissioned by Peter the Great as a direct response to the…
Koldinghus, Denmark
Koldinghus is a Danish royal castle located in the town of Kolding on the Jutland peninsula. The castle was first built in 1268 by the Danish king to guard the…
Colonial Williamsburg
Colonial Williamsburg is a living-history museum located in Williamsburg, Virginia. The designated historic district surrounding the museum contains buildings from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries making it a national…
Kunstmuseum The Hague – Royal Blue
Delft Blue: the whole world knows this iconic earthenware for our country. However, some of the absolute masterpieces are located abroad and are rarely, if ever, seen in our country. This…
Amsterdam Museum
The Amsterdam Museum opened as a history museum in 1926 in the Waag, one of Amsterdam’s fifteenth-century city gates. Since 1975, the museum has been located in a monumental building…
Lobkowicz Palace at Prague Castle
The Lobkowicz Palace is located inside the Prague Castle in the Czech capital. The Lobkowicz family is among the oldest and most distinguished Bohemian noble families and has played a…
Minneapolis Institute of Art
In 1883, twenty-five citizens of Minneapolis founded the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts, committing them to bringing the arts into the life of their community. More than a century later,…
Lytes Cary Manor
Lytes Cary Manor is a small medieval manor house located in Somerset, England. The house was originally occupied by the Lyte family who settled in the area in the thirteenth…
Musée Benoît-De-Puydt, Bailleul
The Musée Benoît-De-Puydt is located in the charming Northern French city of Bailleul. The museum was founded in 1859, when a wealthy collector Benoît De Puydt left his collection to…
Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai
The Musée de la Chartreuse is located in the city of Douai in Northern France. The initial museum, Musée de Douai, opened to the public in about 1800. The first…
Kunstmuseum, The Hague
The Kunstmuseum in The Hague has an important collection of Dutch Delftware and we have been fortunate to partner with them in the past years. In the magnificent permanent exhibition…
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam houses an important collection of Dutch Delftware. Part of this collection is on view in a gallery dedicated to King Willem III. Especially his wife, Mary, was a…
Museum Kunst & Geschiedenis, Brussels
One of the greatest Dutch Delftware collections is housed in Museum Kunst & Geschiedenis, which is part of the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels, Belgium. The historic…
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford
An interesting Dutch Delftware collection in the United States of America is in the located in Hartford, Connecticut. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art was founded by Daniel Wadsworth in…
Museum Arnhem
Originally intended to accommodate the gentlemen's society for repatriated sugar planters, the Arnhem museum was founded in 1856 with the idea to create a ‘Local memorabilia related to history and…
Paleis Het Loo, Apeldoorn
Located in the east of the Netherlands, in Apeldoorn, the palace Het Loo served as a Royal Residence for more than three hundred years. The palace was built in 1684…
Hampton Court Palace, Greater London
With more than 200,000 visitors a year, Hampton Court Palace is one of the most popular attractions in Greater London. Formerly a medieval manor, the palace was acquired in 1518 by…
Chatsworth House, Bakewell
The Chatsworth House is a beautiful estate located in Bakewell in the United Kingdom, and has been the home of the Cavendish family for almost 500 years. Sir William Cavendish,…
Museum Willet-Holthuysen, Amsterdam
The Museum Willet-Holthuysen is located in a double-fronted townhouse on one of the most beautiful canals in Amsterdam. The home was built in 1687 towards the end of Amsterdam’s Golden…
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
In 1866, the Patriotische Gesellschaft founded The Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe (MKG) in Hamburg, Germany. The institution was initially formed as a repository of both historical and contemporary examples…
Uppark House & Garden, Petersfield
The Uppark House is a seventeenth century home located in West-Sussex England. The history of the site first began in the fourteenth century with the creation of a deer…
Design Museum Danmark, Copenhagen
The Design Museum Danmark is located in the capital city of Copenhagen. Founded in 1890 by the Confederation of Danish Industries and the Ny Carlsberg Museumslegat, the museum opened to…
The Hetjens Museum, Germany
Located near the Rhine river in the Palais Nesselrode, the Hetjens Museum preserves, researches and presents the universal history of ceramics. The collection encompasses objects from the Middle East, East…
The Centraal Museum of Utrecht, Netherlands
The Centraal Museum is located in the Dutch city of Utrecht, and is the oldest municipal museum in the Netherlands. It first began in 1830 as a four-room institution on…
The Art Institute of Chicago , USA
The Art Institute of Chicago was founded as both a museum and school for the fine arts in 1879 and is one of the oldest and largest art museums in…
Cracow Saltworks Museum and Mine, Poland
In the city of Wieliczka in Poland, near its former capital Cracow, is the Cracow Saltworks Museum and Mine located. Between the 11th and the 12th century, Wieliczka was the…
The Magnificent Kingston Lacy, southern England
Kingston Lacy is an elegant seventeenth-century Italianate mansion and estate in Dorset, southern England. It was built for Sir Ralph Bankes, after the family’s main seat, Corfe Castle was ruined…
Stroll at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library in Winterthur, United States of America
The Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library is an American estate and museum in Winterthur, Delaware. In the early twentieth century, collector and horticulturist Henry Francis du Pont (1880–1969) and his…
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, the Netherlands
The Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum has recently redisplayed its permanent collection, showcasing the exciting juxtapositions between its collection of old masters and modern art. Opened in 1849, the institution is…
The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England
The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge owes its foundation to Richard, VII Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion who, in 1816, bequeathed his works of art and library to the University of Cambridge.…
The castle of Duivenvoorde, Netherlands
Duivenvoorde is a unique thirteenth-century castle and estate located in the town of Voorschoten in the Netherlands. The estate and castle have been in the same family for centuries and…
Build castles in the air at the Saumur Museum, France
The Château de Saumur in France (Maine-et-Loire département) houses a beautiful museum on its first floor, displaying more than 1500 pieces of ceramics. The collection mostly contains French faience from…
The outdoor museum of Historic Deerfield, MA, U.S.A.
The outdoor museum Historic Deerfield, founded in 1952 in Deerfield, MA, U.S.A., interprets the history and culture of early New England and the Connecticut River Valley. Although the twelve authentic…
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede
Rijksmuseum Twenthe is located in the city of Enschede, in the east of the Netherlands. It was founded through the initiative of the textile baron Jan Bernard van Heek, who wished…
The National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) is the oldest and most visited gallery in Australia. Situated over two buildings – NGV International and NGV Australia – the Gallery hosts…
The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York
The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is the only museum in the United States entirely dedicated to historical and contemporary design. Located on the Upper East Side of New York,…
Rastatt Favorite Palace, Germany
Rastatt Favorite Palace (Schloss Favorite Rastatt) is the oldest German “porcelain palace” and the only one to survive almost unchanged to this day. The enchanting Baroque summer residence and hunting…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York (U.S.A)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is one of the world’s largest and finest museums, with over two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world…
The beautiful collection of the Von Wallenstein family in Mnichovo Hradiště Castle, Czech Republic
The baroque castle of Mnichovo Hradiště in Czech Republic has a long and storied past. In 1621, Václav Budovec, the founder of the castle, was executed for his role in…
Royal visit at The Princessehof, Leeuwarden
The Princessehof in Leeuwarden was formerly a small palace built in 1693. In 1731, Marie Louise van Hessen-Kassel, dowager of Orange, acquired the building. After the death of her husband,…
The Museum Paul Tetar van Elven in Delft
The Museum Paul Tetar van Elven is housed in a quaint sixteenth century canal house on the Koornmarkt (Corn Market) in the city center of Delft. The house was once…
Musée de la Céramique in Rouen, France
Housed in the former Hôtel d’Hocqueville since 1984, the Musée de la Céramique in Rouen provides a beautiful setting for its vast collection of French ceramics. With its sumptuous neoclassical…
The Ludwig Collection in Aachen, Germany
After visiting TEFAF, art admirers who would like to discover the area should look no further than the city of Aachen in Germany. This charming city hosts three beautiful museums that…
Visit to Dyrham Park, Gloucestershire
In 1689, Queen Mary II and King William III moved from the Netherlands to England. Mary, who had a keen passion for Delftware, continued ordering beautiful objects and highly contributed to…
The lavish collection of The Victoria and Albert Museum in London
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is the world’s largest museum of decorative art and design. Founded on the following day of the Great Exhibition in 1851 and named…
Musée national de Céramique, Sèvres
As early as 1740 under the influence of Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV and an influential figure in the art field, a porcelain factory was installed in…
Voyage to the Musée de l’hôtel Sandelin, Saint Omer
The Musée de l'hôtel Sandelin was founded in the nineteenth century by the Municipality of Saint Omer in the North of France. Located in a magnificent eighteenth-century private mansion, the…
Discover the beautiful collection of the Museum Prinsenhof, Delft
In 1583, Willem I of Orange (also known as Willem the Silent) took residence at the Convent of Saint Agatha in Delft during the Dutch revolt of Spain. Nearly a…
Delftware wonders in Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Louvre Paris
The trickery and amusement of Delftware is made clear in this polychrome birdcage plaque, one of three examples that are housed in the collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs…
Our American “Grand Tour” : The Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art was chartered in 1876 for the Centennial Exhibition, the first official World's Fair held in the United States. The museum began as a legacy of…
Our American “Grand Tour”: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
In June 2016, we embarked on a week-long American Grand Tour of major museum collections along the East Coast. We had the great pleasure to visit the Museum of Fine…
A trip to Poland: the Wawel Castle in Krakow
For many centuries, the Wawel Castle in Krakow, Poland has been witness to countless historical events. The present building was constructed after a devastating fire in the beginning of the…
Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague
After a thorough renovation, the largest Czech museum dedicated to applied art and design reopened last February. Founded in 1885, the Prague Museum of Decorative Arts (Uměleckoprůmyslové muzeum v…
Erddig Hall
Erddig Hall is a stately country house located on the outskirts of Wrexham in Wales. It was built in 1683-1687 by the Cheshire mason Thomas Webb for Joshua Edisbury,…
Skokloster Castle, Sweden
Skokloster Castle is considered one of the great baroque castles of Europe, situated on a peninsula in Lake Mälaren, 60 km northwest of Stockholm, the Swedish capital. Built between…
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (FAMSF) comprise two separate museums: the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. Together…
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