Ceramics museum

Porcelain miners at the Meissen Porcelain Museum

The Terracotta Army on display; view from visitor's gallery.

The Musée nationale de la porcelaine Adrien Dubouché in Limoges concentrates on the local Limoges porcelain.

The 19th-century building (formerly the Egyptian embassy) of the Tehran The Glassware and Ceramic Museum of Iran.

The State Ceramics Museum, Moscow: A dinner service presented by Napoleon to Alexander I of Russia upon signing the Treaties of Tilsit.

A bottle kiln at the Coalport China Museum.

Some specialist ceramics museums are (number of pieces are approximate):

Australia

• National Museum of Australian Pottery, Holbrook, New South Wales – Australian domestic pottery, 1500 pieces[7]

Belgium

• Musée de la Céramique, Andenne, Wallonia – tells you all about the famous ceramic from the city of Andenne[8]

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.[9] 1200 pieces

Canada

• Gardiner Museum, Toronto, with 3,000 pieces.[10]
• Medalta in the Historic Clay District, Medicine Hat, Alberta, 53,000.[11]

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[12]
• 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.[13]
• The Terracotta Army are on display where they were discovered near Xi'an
• Yixing Ceramics Museum, 30,000 pieces, mainly from the Yixing area.[14]

Czech Republic

• Museum of Czech Porcelain, Prague

Denmark

• CLAY Keramikmuseum Danmark, Grimmerhus, Kongebrovej 42, DK-5500 Middelfart. Website: CLAY Keramikmuseum Danmark, Kongebrovej 42, 5500 Middelfart.

France[15]

• 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.[16]
• Musée nationale de la porcelaine Adrien Dubouché, Limoges, 15,000 pieces, mostly Limoges porcelain also rare pieces by Böttger[17][18]
• 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.

Germany

• Waechtersbach ceramics in Brachttal, Hesse
• Zwinger Museum - the Porzellansammlung, or Porcelain Collection, at the Zwinger Museum in Dresden[19][20][21][22]
• Hetjens-Museum or Deutsches Keramik-Museum in Düsseldorf, 15,000 pieces[23]
• Terra-Sigillata-Museum Rheinzabern, Rheinzabern, for Ancient Roman terra sigillata ware made near the town

Iran

• The Glassware and Ceramic Museum of Iran, Tehran[24]

Italy

• Museo della Ceramica, in the Picture Gallery, Savona,[25]
• Museo delle porcellane, in the Boboli Gardens, Florence
• International Museum of Ceramics, in Faenza,[26]
• Antiquarium Turritano
• 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.[27] The Arita Porcelain Park is perhaps the world's only theme park based on ceramics.
• NGK Museum, specializing in porcelain insulators

South Korea

• Gyeonggi Ceramic Museum, Gwanggju
• Icheon World Ceramic Center,[28][29][30]

The Netherlands

• Princessehof Ceramics Museum, Leeuwarden,[31]
• Ceramics Museum Tienschuur, Tegelen – tells about the renowned ceramics tradition in the Tegelen region, but also displays an extensive collection of contemporary ceramics by Dutch and international ceramists.[32]

Portugal

• Museu de Cerâmica, Caldas da Rainha, Portuguese and other ceramics,
• Museu de Cerâmica de Sacavém, Sacavém

Russia

• State Ceramics Museum, Kuskovo Palace, Moscow, 30,000 pieces, Russian, French and other ceramics from the Sheremetev collection,[33]
• 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.[34][35]
• Pottery Museum, Skopin, Ryazan Oblast, Skopin pottery

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.[36]

Switzerland

• Musée Ariana:[37] Swiss Museum for Ceramics and Glass, Geneva

Sweden

• Gustavsberg Porcelain Museum (Gustavsberg, Stockholm), the history of the Gustavsberg Porcelain Factory [38]

Taiwan

• Taipei County Yingge Ceramics Museum

Thailand

• Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum, Bangkok, opened 2005, 2,000 pieces of the pottery of Thailand and neighbouring countries.

Ukraine

• Pottery Museum, Novoselivka, Vinnytsia Oblast[39]
• Folk Pottery Museum, Opyshnia, Poltava Oblast

United Kingdom

• Aberystwyth University Ceramics Collection
• Coalport China Museum, mainly Coalport China
• Gladstone Pottery Museum - working pottery museum
• Jackfield Tile Museum
• Museum of Royal Worcester, at the old Royal Worcester factory site.
• Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, Bloomsbury, London. 1,400 pieces of classic Chinese porcelain from the 10th to 18th centuries.
• Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, mainly Staffordshire pottery
• Spode Museum, for Spode
• Wedgwood Museum

United States

• American Museum of Ceramic Art (Pomona, California), 7,000 pieces [40]
• Museum of Ceramics (East Liverpool, Ohio), 4,000 mainly Ohio pottery[41]
• Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art, Alfred, New York, 8,000 pieces, including glass.

• List of museums with major collections of Asian art
• List of museums with major collections of Islamic art
• List of museums with major collections of Greek and Roman antiquities

• Peterson, Jan. The craft and art of clay: a complete potter's handbook, Laurence King Publishing, 2003, ISBN 1-85669-354-6, ISBN 978-1-85669-354-7, Google books Listing of museum ceramics collections (heavily weighted to US) pp. 396–412.

• An Artist's Travel Guide to the Ceramics Museums of Europe: With Line Drawings Reproduced from the Author's Sketchbooks, Alexandra Copeland, Artists Travel Guides, 1999, ISBN 0-9586098-0-2, ISBN 978-0-9586098-0-7 - covers over 120 museums in 19 countries

• International Ceramics Directory –comprehensive list of ceramics collections with links