There are several jewelry museums that you should know that are located in different countries and keep a tradition for exhibiting luxurious jewels as well as emblematic objects of their history and culture. So, if you are a jewellery lover, you will want to have knowledge of their location and characteristics to visit them and enjoy what they offer to their visitors; that is why we will present the most important ones below:
Victoria and Albert Museum: This jewelry museum is located in London, capital of England, and was founded in 1852 with the original name of “Museum of South Kensignton”, but was later renamed in 1899 with the aim to honor Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
It is known as the largest art and design museum in the world, and has 145 galleries on 7 floors, divided into 5 categories: modern objects, materials and techniques, exhibitions and those dedicated to Asia and Europe. There is a collection of more than 4 million objects as well as 22 galleries of goldsmiths, which has more than 35,000 pieces and contemporary jewelry.
The Tower of London Museum: In this jewellery museum you will find the jewels of the British crown; and although today it is used to exhibit these works of art, for 900 years it was a quite feared fortress, which tells the story of many aristocrats, priests and overthrown kings.
National Jewelry Museum of Tehran (Iran): This jewelry museum is located within the Central Bank of Iran, and has the national royal jewels treasure of this country, which includes a collection of precious jewels dating back to the 25 centuries of the Persian dynasties, and the royal crowns, as well as gems of the great mines of Khorasan and Turkestan, the peacock throne with 26,733 precious gems, the “Darya-ye-Noor” pink diamond of 182 carats, a ceremonial sword that has 1800 diamonds, among other pieces.
Louvre Museum (France): What was a great defence fortress in the thirteenth century, today is the most visited museum in the world, and since it was founded in the 19th century it become the most famous in France. This museum has an area of 60,000 m2, and there you can see most of the jewels of the French Crown, which include, for example, the emeralds that Napoleon Bonaparte gave to Maria Luisa.
Lalique Museum: This jewelry museum located in France was founded in 2011 to pay tribute to René Lalique, a master jeweller of Art Nouveau who also specialized in enamel and glass. There you can see about 650 pieces of this great artist.
The Kremlin Armory Museum: It is located in Moscow, Russia, and the most important royal treasures of the Russian dynasty are there, within which 7 eggs from the Fabergé Eggs collection are, as well as the crowns of the Russian czars, the Orlov diamond, the Golden Gospel, the Oklad of the Icon of the Virgin of Vladimir, among others.
Fabergé Museum: This museum founded in 2013 is located in Shuvalov Palace, St Petersburg, Russia; and the most famous works of the great artist “Fabergé” are there, where 9 imperials and 6 non-imperial eggs stand out among more than 1500 pieces.
The Imperial Treasury Chamber in Vienna, Austria: It is the most important treasure chamber in the world, and is part of the collections of the Institution of the Museum of Art History, located in the Hofburg Imperial Palace. There you can see from medieval objects and ecclesiastical treasures to the largest emeralds in the world, the crowns of the Holy Roman Empire and the Austrian Imperial, among other emblematic jewels.
New York Metropolitan Museum of Art: This great museum was founded in 1872, and currently has a collection of more than two million works of Egyptian, Greek, Byzantine, Asian, African and Islamic art, even from the Middle East and Oceania. In addition, it has an exhibition of jewellery throughout the year, as well as a jewelry store.
Gold Museum: This jewellery museum of pre-Columbian art was founded in 1939 in Bogotá, Colombia in order to preserve and protect the archaeological heritage of this country. It has 55,000 pieces of gold and other materials such as masks, bracelets and necklaces of the Tayrona, Quimbaya, Calima cultures, among others.
Amsterdam Diamond Museum: This jewellery museum was founded in 2007, it is where the history of the diamond is exposed from its extraction to the processes to which it is subjected. There is a large collection of diamond jewelry, such as the Katana, the Rembrandt and The Ape’s skull.
H. Stern Museum: This jewellery museum is located in Brazil and was founded by German Hans Stern, who arrived in that country in 1949. It is currently one of the most important and well-known Brazilian jewellery companies worldwide. It is a museum and workshop at the same time, and during the visits there is a tour where the process of manufacturing its jewellery is explained.
DIVA: It is located in Antwerp and was it was opened in 2018 with the purpose of exhibiting and telling the story of this place and its relationship with diamonds. This place, more than a jewelry museum, is the center where 80% of the world’s diamonds pass, which is the reason why, for five centuries, this city has been considered the diamond capital of the world and is the headquarters of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses (WFDB) since 1947.
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