Exhibitions Archive - By subject
General
Bijoux: The Origins and Impacts of Jewelry
The exhibition celebrates the long history of personal adornment through jewelry and explores its impact on our culture and environment. The exhibit showcases exquisite jewelry from both local and international private collections which are displayed together with some of the Bruce Museum’s most spectacular mineral and gem specimens.
16/07/2011 – 26/02/2012
Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT 06830-7157, USA
Beautiful as the jewellery
People have used jewellery “always”. The museum’s collections oldest jewellery are from Stone Age; namely amber and slate pieces. The oldest collections of historical period pieces are from the 1700s. Early 1800′s, the Empire era, is represented in jewellery, as well as the late 1800′s. Fairly large amounts of collections are the so-called hair jewellery or 1800’s creations. This was organised to coincide with The Art Museums jewellery exhibition by new or modern designers.
10/04/2011 - 8/01/2012
Northern Ostrobothnia museum (Pohjois-Pohjanmaan museo), The city of Oulu, Finland
Preciousness Preserved. Jewelry from the Charleston Museum's Collections from Antiquity to Today
The finest jewelry from the Museum's collection will be showcased. Donated by generations of Charlestonians, these pieces span the globe and date from 500 B.C. to the mid-20th century. Jewelry collections ranging from men's accessories to mourning and hairwork pieces will be exhibited. Visitors can also view natural jewelry incorporating jet, corals, pearls, and lava rocks. And, finally, a display of gemstone jewelry will feature amethysts, garnets, diamonds, and pastes (faceted highcontent leaded glass that closely imitated diamonds).
until 5/09/2011
Charleston Museum, Charleston, SC 29403, USA
Bedazzled : 5,000 Years of Jewelry
This exhibition will provide examples, both in depth and range, of stunning jewelry from 3000 B.C.E. through the early 20th century. It will feature some of the Walters Art Museum’s greatest masterpieces as well as many hidden treasures on view for the first time. This selection of more than 150 pieces will not only present the evolution of techniques and materials, but also demonstrate the importance of jewelry as an expression of creativity and often wealth and position. In addition, a special exhibition section will be devoted to rings, the only type of jewelry worn continuously through the ages. Assembled primarily by one of the Walters Art Museum’s founders, Henry Walters, during the first three decades of the last century, this renowned collection contains superb examples of expert craftsmanship.
19/10/2008 - 4/01/2009
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD, USA
28/03/2010 - 25/07/2010
El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA), El Paso, Texas, USA
European traditional
Traditional jewellery and dress from the Balkans
This is a rare chance to enjoy the Museum’s spectacular collections from Bulgaria, the former Yugoslavia, Albania and northern Greece, all dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Complete costumes showing how the jewellery was worn, including a wedding couple from Galicnik, Macedonia, will be shown alongside huge belt clasps, coin chains, head ornaments and textiles with elaborate metal thread embroidery.
21/01/2011 – 11/09/2011
The British Museum, London, UK
Schmuck zum Gwand. Traditional jewellery from South Germany
Chokers and rosaries, bodice chains and hair pins, watch fobs and rings set with deer's teeth are all part of the traditional jewellery of the south German region since the 17th century. This exhibition shows mainly 19th century pieces from the rich collection of the Bavarian National Museum.
11/06/2010 – 05/09/2010
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Pforzheim, Germany
2/09/2010 - 5/11/2010
Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, München, Germany
Jewels and ritual. Treasures from the Perusini collection.
27/6/2008 – 30/11/2008
Il Museo Etnografico del Friuli, Friuli, Italy
Royalty
The Treasure of the Kremlin
The Kremlin Palace in Moscow, the political heart of ancient Russia, houses the Armoury of the Grand Princes and the Tsars containing precious objects that belonged to the Emperors and mementoes connected with famous governors and statesmen. This exhibition, part of the celebrations for the Italy–Russia Year, will contain a fine selection from the collections. Other objects on display from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries come from the Cathedral of the Annunciation of the Kremlin and an extraordinary collection of Byzantine gems, which arrived in Moscow as a result of the close and constant relations with Constantinople, since the Moscow court was considered the legitimate heir of the Byzantine empire. Other treasures include works by the Russian masters from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century.
27/05/2011 – 11/09/2011
Museo degli Argenti, Florence, Italy
Royal Fabergé Exhibition
The exhibition at the annual Summer Opening of Buckingham Palace brings together masterpieces by Carl Fabergé, from Imperial Easter Eggs and dazzling jewel-encrusted boxes to miniature carvings of favourite royal pets. Royal Fabergé reveals how the world’s finest collection of work by the great Russian goldsmith and jeweller has been created by successive generations of the British Royal Family.
1/08/2011 – 25/09/2011
The State Rooms, Buckingham Palace, London, UK
Imperial orders. Diplomatic splendours of the Second Empire
All the decorations received by Napoleon III, the Prince Imperial and Empress Eugenie, miraculously saved from the burning of the Tuileries in 1871, are presented to the public for the first time in their entirety. Each piece tells a story, a friendship, a victory, an economic or political accord. The whole collection offers a unique journey into the world of the 19th century.
19/01/2011 – 29/05/2011
Musée national de la Légion d’honneur et des ordres de chevalerie, Paris, France
Moravian-Silesian Frontier in the Time of John of Luxembourg
A major exhibition to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the accession of the Luxembourg dynasty to the Czech throne. Highlights of the exhibition will include part of the Bohemian royal treasure that was discovered in the Polish Silesian town of Sroda Slaska in the 1980s, and the crown of Blanche of Valois.
15/12/2010 - 31/03/2011
Ostrava Museum, Ostrava, Czech Republic
Glanz der Macht – kaiserliche Pretiosen aus der Wiener Kunstkammer In Kooperation mit dem Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien
The Splendour of Power - Hapsburg imperial Jewellery from the Kunstkammer in Vienna
Beauty, distinctiveness and glamour distinguish these imperial jewels from the Kunstkammer in Vienna, itself a jewel among Kunstkammers. These were status-enhancing qualities intended to illuminate their wearers. The exhibition will show precious and exquisite pieces of jewellery, State insignia, and objets d'art made from precious hardstones.
03/12/2010 – 13/02/2011
Schmuckmuseum, Pforzheim, Germany
17/04/2011 – 24/07/2011
Stiftung Moritzburg - Kunstmuseum des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle (Saale), Germany
Royal Marriage – Elizabeth Premyslid and John of Luxembourg 1310.
A major exhibition to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the accession of the Luxembourg dynasty to the Czech throne. A highlight of the exhibition will be a large part of the Bohemian royal treasure that was discovered in the Polish Silesian town of Sroda Slaska in the 1980s. Prominent among the precious objects will be a lady's crown that almost certainly was worn by one of the Bohemian queens from the end of the 13th or first half of the 14th centuries and might even have adorned the head of Queen Elizabeth Premyslid herself.
4/11/2010 - 6/02/2011
The Stone Bell House, Prague, Czech Republic
For honour and glory: jewellery from the Napoleonic era
2010 will see the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's visit to Antwerp with his second wife Marie-Louise. The Diamond Museum has taken advantage of this opportunity to mount an exhibition celebrating the splendour and ostentation of the jewellery and military decorations of the Napoleonic era.
30/09/2010 – 31/12/2010
Diamantmuseum Provincie Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
Victoria & Albert: Art & Love
This major exhibition is the first ever to focus on Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s shared enthusiasm for art. Bringing together over 400 items from the Royal Collection, it celebrates the royal couple’s mutual delight in collecting and displaying works of art, from the time of their engagement in 1839 to the Prince’s untimely death in 1861. It will incude a good selection of ‘state’ jewellery (the diamond collet necklace, the engagement brooch, the Oriental tiara, etc), a quantity of insignia belonging to both Queen and Prince, and a selection of ‘personal’ jewellery (such as pebble bracelets, stag’s teeth parures, images of the children, etc).
19/03/2010 – 5/12/2010
Buckingham Palace, London, UK
1810, the politics of love - Napoleon I and Marie-Louise in Compiègne
This first exhibition in France to evoke Marie-Louise, Empress of the French, intends to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of the second marriage of Napoleon I to the young Archduchess of Austria, Marie-Antoinette’s grand-niece. It describes the extraordinary preparations for the arrival of the new Empress at the Palace of Compiègne, the splendours of the wedding ceremonies in Paris and the subsequent honeymoon in Compiègne. More than 200 works, wedding gifts, commissions for the sovereign’s trousseau and items of furniture, have been brought together: paintings, drawings, prints, sculptures, objets d’art, clothes, silks and jewellery
28/03/2010 – 19/07/2010
Château de Compiègne Museum, Compiègne, France
The King's Blood: relics of King Charles I
An exhibition drawing on public and private collections to show a small group of relics associated with King Charles I, whose death over three hundred and fifty years ago still polarises opinion. Venerated as a saint by some, his relics took on a huge significance for royalists. Exhibits include the chalice from which he took his last communion, his pearl earring, and a fascinating gem-set reliquary. Admission is free, but catalogues will be sold in aid of The Down’s Syndrome Association.
11/05/2010 – 21/05/2010
Wartski, London, UK
Royal diadems and jewellery: Masterpieces of Italian goldsmiths' art of the Court of Savoy
This exhibition displays the court jewellery of Savoy, created by the best Italian goldsmiths of the 19th century, preserved intact in the Sanctuary of Oropa, with splendid works of 17th and 18th century. There are also “civil” jewels – representing the devotion during centuries of the common people, aristocracy and royal family to the Madonna d’Oropa, a major sanctuary in the mountains of Biella that dominates physically and spiritually all other parts of the Piedmont region.
26/07/2009 – 10/01/2010
Reggia di Venaria, Turin, Italy
The jewels of Marie Louise
Annual one-week exhibition celebrating the birth and death dates of Marie Louise of Hapsburg, the second wife of Napoleon. The exhibition will feature two major recent acquisitions as well as loans from private collections. It is accompanied by a book, number 11 in the museum's series, “I gioielli di Maria Luigia”
12/12/2009 – 20/12/2009
Museo Glauco Lombardi, Parma , Italy
Os anos de exílio da Rainha D. Amélia: Colecção Rémi Fénérol
Queen D. Amélia’s personal belongings are for the first time exhibited in Lisbon. All the objects have been travelling for over a century and part of them belong to the Rémi Fénérol’s royalty objects collection. The collector followed the steps of the Queen’s former servants to whom she offered jewels and personal objects throughout the life notwithstanding with the order «only to part with them after the 1980’s decade», according to the Museum’s director, José Alberto Ribeiro.
20/11/2008 – 30/04/2009
Casa-Museu Anastácio Gonçalves, Lisbon, Portugal
Treasures of the Esterházy Princes
13/12/06 – 31/12/08
Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest, Hungary
Other
De l'Utopie a la Connaissance
The first special exhibition of the Belgian Museum of Freemasonry will be devoted to jewellery from Rosicrucian period (1760-1890), from the collection of Daniel Guégen, for example, the Sovereign Prince Rose Croix is the 18th of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite (AASR). Also included is the table of Oswald Wirth owned by the Museum of Freemasonry in Paris.
1/06/2011 - 31/10/2011
Belgian Museum of Freemasonry, Brussels
Wives and Sweethearts
Wives and Sweethearts explores soldiers' relationships from the 18th century to the present day through a deeply-moving selection of letters and photographs. Displayed alongside are sweetheart brooches, jewellery and other touching love-tokens.
10/02/2011 – 30/07/2011
National Army Museum, London SW3 4HT, UK
Serpentina – die Schlange im Schmuck
Serpentine - the snake in Jewellery
In almost all of the world's cultures, the snake is a special symbol, in particular because its symbolism is very complex and multifaceted. On the one hand it stands for eternity and renewal because it sheds its skin, and on the other hand it represents death and destruction. The ›Serpentina‹ exhibition will present remarkable pieces of jewellery featuring the snake. Originating not only from Europe but also from America, Africa and Asia, these pieces were crafted in the most different epochs. They cover the whole gamut from the Uraeus snake of Ancient Egypt as well as examples from Ancient Greece and Rome via exquisite specimens from the 19th century such as those by Castellani, Cartier and Fabergé to some extravagant creations from the Art Nouveau period by Lalique, Mucha or Cranach and finally those designed by jewellery artists of the 20th century. The exhibits from non-European cultures will mainly be from Mexico, the Naga people in India and the Baoulé people in Africa.
26/11/2011 – 26/02/2012
Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim, Germany
The Treasure of San Gennaro
For the first time in history, the most prestigious works of the legendary Treasure of San Gennaro will be exhibited to the public at the same time in the beautiful sites of six different museums in Naples. The Treasure contains seven centuries of donations of popes, emperors, kings, rulers, famous people and ordinary people. Thanks to the ancient institution of the Deputation of the Royal Chapel of San Gennaro, the treasure is intact since 1527, having never suffered spoliation or theft or financed wars. Napoleon himself, who plundered everywhere he went, not only took nothing, but had to give San Gennaro a monstrance of gold, silver and precious stones of superb beauty and refinement. For the privilege of being considered worthy of being part of the Treasure of San Gennaro all the donated works correspond to high quality artistic and cultural value and were made by the great artisans of the time.
9/04/2011 – 12/06/2011
Museo del Tesoro di San Gennaro, Royal Chapel of San Gennaro, Duomo di Napoli, Complex Girolamini, Historical archives of the Banco di Napoli, Diocesan Museum, Naples, Italy
Articles of Hope, Adornments for Justice
Supported by the Arts Council England, this unique exhibition takes a fresh look at the concept of “Campaign Jewellery.” Jewellery is not solely worn for the decoration and adornment of the wearer but deliberately carries symbolic significance to show marks of allegiance, political, religious or ethical persuasions to challenge the viewer. Through the unusual medium of art jewellery, MJN have grasped the right to freedom of expression, educating, challenging and provoking the viewer’s responsibility to a fairer world. The jewellery is supported by a photography exhibition by Jonathan Keenan, showing shots of the work worn on the body. The Manchester Jewellers Network (MJN) was established in 2002 and is a regional group of the Association for Contemporary Jewellery (ACJ).
1/07/2009 – 21/08/2009
The Royal Exchange Theatre - The Mezzanine Gallery, Manchester, UK